Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: I n the early 1960s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began investing large sums of capital in the interior of the country with the stated goal of building up military and civilian infrastructure to safeguard China from a potential American or Soviet military threat.Often neglected in histories of contemporary China, this so-called Third Front campaign presents some uncanny similarities with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of today, both in its emphasis on infrastructure and in the way in which this mobilisation ensconced industrial society in China's hinterland.In this conversation, we discuss what the Third Front can tell us in terms of 'archaeologies of the BRI' with Covell Meyskens, Assistant
Source: Made in China Journal
Authors: Matthew Galway, Covell Meyskens
Institutions: University of Cambridge, Naval Postgraduate School
Language: English
Topic: Belt and Road Initiative
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3217618197