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Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens. “Building a Dam for China in the Three Gorges Region, 1919-1971,” in Water, Technology and the Nation-State, edited by Filippo Menga and Erik Swyngedouw (London: Routledge, 2018), 207-222. on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This chapter examines efforts to construct a hydropower station in China’s Three Gorges region from 1919 to 1971
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Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens. “Everyday Life in Mao’s China: a Q & A with historian Covell Meyskens,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 27, 2016. on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This interview is about the website Everyday Life in Mao’s China.
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Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens. “Third Front Railroads and Industrial Modernity in Late Maoist China.” Twentieth Century China (fall 2015) . on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
In the late 1960s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) became concerned that the United States or the Soviet Union might invade. To protect national sovereignty, the Party carried out a massive campaign to industrialize China’s West called the Third Front. This article focuses on Third Front railway building. It shows that, although Third Front…[Read more]
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Covell Meyskens deposited Liquidite, Capital, souverainte on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This article analyzes the relationship between global capitalism and the state at the start of the twentieth first century.
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Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens. “Where Mao Meets the Mundane: Everyday Life in a Bygone China,” New York Times, August 17, 2016. on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This interview is about the website Everyday Life in Mao’s China
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Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens. “Inequality and Social Stratification in Maoist China.” Twentieth Century China 43 (2018), 196-202. on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This article examines recent scholarship on inequality and social stratification in Mao’s China.
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Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens.”Labour,” in Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi, eds. Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, and Christian Sorace (London: Verso, 2019). on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This book chapter examines images of labor in Mao’s China.
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Covell Meyskens's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
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