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SUMMARY:A city of future past: urban planning and urban construction in no
 rtheast China after the Communist Revolution - Koji Hirata (Emmanuel Colle
 ge\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20181025T120000Z
DTEND:20181025T130000Z
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines how industrial enterprises and ordinary pe
 ople participated in construction of cities in the early years of the Peop
 le's Republic of China (1949 to present)\, especially between 1952 and 195
 7. Much of the past scholarly literature on urban planning in the early PR
 C focused on the state bureaucracy. By contrast\, I explore how urban-plan
 ning policies were implemented at the ground level\, by focusing on the ca
 se of Anshan – a major steel industrial city in Manchuria (northeast Chi
 na) that had previously been constructed as a Japanese colonial city prior
  to 1945. To examine the construction and reconstruction of this city\, I 
 draw upon a wide range of newly available sources\, including interviews\,
  local newspapers\, official municipal histories\, and confidential govern
 ment reports. My paper begins with a brief overview of the establishment o
 f the PRC city-planning bureaucracy\, which is followed by a discussion of
  the process and outcomes of urban construction. I then discuss the popula
 tion movement to Anshan from the countryside\, and how this contributed to
  issues of housing shortages in the city. Altogether\, this re-examination
  of the Chinese urban political economy demonstrates that local-level nego
 tiations among various actors\, including lower-level officials\, enterpri
 se managers\, and even migrant workers\, lay at the heart of urban constru
 ction in Mao-era China.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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