Making Mao's Steelworks

Located in Manchuria (Northeast China), the geopolitical borderlandbetween China, Russia, and Japan, among others, Anshan Iron andSteel Works (Angang) was Mao-era China's most important industrial enterprise. The history of Angang from 1915 to 2000 reveals the hybridnature of China's accelerated industrialization, shaped by transnationalinteractions, domestic factors, and local dynamics. Utilizing archives inChinese, Japanese, Russian, and English, Koji Hirata provides the firstcomprehensive history of this enterprise before, during, and after theMao era (1949-1976). Through this unique lens, he explores the complexinterplay of transnational influences in Mao-era China.By illustrating the symbiotic relationship between socialism and capitalismduring the twentieth century, this major new study situates Chinawithin the complex global history of late industrialization.