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DESCRIPTION:This talk introduces Koji Hirata’s book\, Making Mao’s Steelwor
 ks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism
  (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, which explores the evolution of heav
 y industry in Northeast China (Manchuria)\, with a focus on the Anshan Iron
  and Steel Works (Angang). Drawing on archives and interviews in Chinese\, 
 Japanese\, Russian\, and English\, the book traces Angang’s history from it
 s origins under Japanese colonial rule\, through Soviet involvement\, to it
 s role as a flagship state-owned enterprise in Maoist China\, and finally t
 o a symbol of Northeast China’s “decline” in the post-Mao era.\n\nThe book 
 argues that China’s industrialization was part of a broader global history 
 of late industrialization\, shaped by both capitalist and socialist models.
  Northeast China\, as a transnational borderland\, played a crucial role in
  this process\, shaped by technological transfers\, shifting geopolitical d
 ynamics\, and competing political regimes. It also highlights the local pol
 itical dynamics of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under socialism. While SO
 Es were vertically controlled by central authorities\, they also operated w
 ithin a framework of local bureaucratic bargaining. Finally\, the book exte
 nds beyond the Mao era to explore Dongbei’s industrial “decline” in the pos
 t-Mao reform period and its transformation into China’s “rust belt.”\n\nThi
 s event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here. This event is co-
 sponorsed by the Center for East Asian Studies\, the History Department and
  the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.\n\nAbout 
 the speaker\n\nKoji Hirata is a Senior Research Fellow (Senior Lecturer) in
  History at Monash University in Australia. He earned his Ph.D. in history 
 at Stanford University in 2018. Before joining Monash\, he was a Research F
 ellow (JRF) at Emmanuel College\, University of Cambridge. His research foc
 uses on modern China\, Japan\, and Russia/Soviet Union with broader implica
 tions for the global history of capitalism and socialism. His new book Maki
 ng Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of 
 Chinese Socialism (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, received the 2025 R
 eid Prize from the Asian Studies Association of Australia. He is currently 
 working on a new book project about Mao-era China’s foreign economic relati
 ons.
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SUMMARY:Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational
  Origins of Chinese Socialism
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URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/making-maos-steelworks
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