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Author Hou, Li, 1973- author.

Title Building for oil : Daqing and the formation of the Chinese socialist state / Hou Li.

Imprint Cambridge, (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
[Cambridge, Mass.] : distributed by Harvard University Press.
©2018
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 2nd FL Social Science Library Books  HT395.C62 D34 2018    Available
Collation xxiv, 245 pages ; 24 cm.
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Series Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 110
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 110.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. The discovery of Daqing: The search for oil -- The weakness of the state industrialization plan -- Daqing: the great celebration -- Construction (jianshe): building a new China ; 2. Production first, livelihood second: Daqing: the battlefield -- Total mobilization -- An alternative landscape -- Battlefield communism: integration of state and society ; 3. Breakthrough on a narrow front: The political economy of building construction -- Planning without cities -- "More, faster, better, and more economic" ; 4. Celebrating Daqing: the correct path for industrialization -- Learning from Daqing -- Worker-peasant villages on the oil field -- Cities and buildings based on the Daqing model -- Industrialization without urbanization ; 5. Living in an urban-rural heterotopia: The factory as a production machine -- The factory as a work-study school -- The factory as a battle field ; 6. Challenging the Daqing model: The red flag on the industrial front -- Growing industrial agglomeration -- The great leap outward -- The sinking of the oil rig.
Summary "Examines Chinese urbanization and industrialization strategies for a model petroleum city, Daquing, during the early years of the People's Republic. It concerns the politics of building, the pursuit of food, energy and resources, and the everyday lives of the working men and women who inhabited China's northeastern frontier."--Publisher description.
Subject Regional planning -- China -- Daqing (Heilongjiang Sheng) -- History.
Industrialization -- China -- Daqing (Heilongjiang Sheng) -- History.
Petroleum industry and trade -- China -- Daqing (Heilongjiang Sheng) -- History.
Petroleum workers -- China -- Daqing (Heilongjiang Sheng) -- Social conditions.
Industrialization. fast (OCoLC)fst00971825
Petroleum industry and trade. fast (OCoLC)fst01059546
Petroleum workers -- Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01059877
Regional planning. fast (OCoLC)fst01093120
Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01919811
Daqing (Heilongjiang Sheng, China) -- History.
China -- Social conditions -- 1949-
China. fast (OCoLC)fst01206073
China -- Daqing (Heilongjiang Sheng) fast (OCoLC)fst01316095
ISBN 9780674983816
0674983815