Knowledge Commons | Covell Meyskens | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/cfmeyskens/activity/ Activity feed for Covell Meyskens. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:22:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1ccc77a839208a38d37f9a4cbd2e538e 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. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677937/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:55:52 -0500 This chapter examines efforts to construct a hydropower station in China's Three Gorges region from 1919 to 1971

]]> 0 c216120a1559be838d39d17daa401f38 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. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677936/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:50:37 -0500 This interview is about the website Everyday Life in Mao's China.

]]> 0 faac665cf5b5cf2ad6e771a400172114 Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens. “Third Front Railroads and Industrial Modernity in Late Maoist China.” Twentieth Century China (fall 2015) . https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677935/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:47:44 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f4741c2eacda5f6ca9bca49cd2499fbb Covell Meyskens deposited Liquidite, Capital, souverainte https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677933/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:44:09 -0500 This article analyzes the relationship between global capitalism and the state at the start of the twentieth first century.

]]> 0 9601c6fa4a9cde9be31e834b4202b266 Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens. “Where Mao Meets the Mundane: Everyday Life in a Bygone China,” New York Times, August 17, 2016. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677932/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:40:45 -0500 This interview is about the website Everyday Life in Mao's China

]]> 0 1ba8670e47276c9239ee72cd212be297 Covell Meyskens deposited Covell Meyskens. “Inequality and Social Stratification in Maoist China.” Twentieth Century China 43 (2018), 196-202. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677931/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:36:04 -0500 This article examines recent scholarship on inequality and social stratification in Mao's China.

]]> 0 1a5aa5388dec1ae949f0a6dc9a8376c3 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). https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677930/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:32:16 -0500 This book chapter examines images of labor in Mao's China.

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