OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
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‘Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang), located in China’s largest heavy industry region, Manchuria (Northeast China), was the largest steel-making enterprise of the Mao era (1949–1976). Drawing on archives in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English, my recently published book, Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 2024), offers the first comprehensive history of Angang before, during, and after the Mao era. Among other themes, it traces the pre-Communist roots of China’s socialist industrialisation, showing how the Chinese Communist Party developed a new system of industrialisation in Manchuria by combining Soviet-style economic planning with industrial legacies inherited from the Japanese and Nationalists. By highlighting the symbiotic relationship between socialism and capitalism, the book situates China’s socialist industrialisation within the global history of late industrialisation.’
