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DESCRIPTION:In a 2013 speech on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics\, Pr
 esident Xi Jinping suggested that China’s socialist revolution created t
 he theoretical\, material\, and institutional foundations for the economic
  reforms. This presentation considers that claim through state factories a
 nd urban development in Chengdu. It asks: which specific legacies of Mao-e
 ra governance enabled contemporary state-driven economic expansion? And ho
 w can the function of such legacies be observed from the perspective of ur
 ban history? \n\nIt traces the transformation of Mao-era industrial zones 
 in Chengdu into market-oriented developments tied to the Belt and Road Ini
 tiative. It examines how the Chinese Communist Party has coordinated indus
 trial\, urban\, and economic policy across multiple scales\, from national
  strategy to factory restructuring. In so doing\, I argue that reform-era 
 developments adapt methods of governance cemented under socialism. By anal
 yzing workers’ responses to industrial and urban reform\, I also show ho
 w compliance with reform policies emerged from Mao-era institutional and p
 olitical cultures. Bridging PRC (People’s Republic of China) history and
  the history of the economic reforms\, the presentation reinterprets SOE (
 state-owned enterprise) reform as a series of state adaptations rooted in 
 the socialist industrial regime.\n\nThis event is free and open to the pub
 lic. Please RSVP here. \n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nSarah Chang is an assista
 nt professor of history at Miami University (Ohio). She holds a Ph.D. in h
 istory from UC Santa Cruz and a B.A. from Stanford University. Her researc
 h focuses on labor\, gender\, and the rural-urban divide in the context of
  Chinese state-owned enterprises. Her current book project examines how th
 e rise and fall of two state-owned steel mills in Chengdu marked China’s
  changing urban regimes from socialism to the economic reforms. Chang has 
 published works in Nan Nü: Men\, Women and Gender in China\, The Journal 
 of Urban Affairs\, and The PRC History Review.
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LOCATION:Lathrop Library\, 224
SUMMARY:From the State Factory to the New Silk Road
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 he-new-silk-road
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