Table of Contents
List of Maps and Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xvii
Introduction 1
1 The Discovery of Daqing 5
The Search for Oil 6
The Weakness of the State Industrialization Plan 14
Daqing: The Great Celebration 25
Construction (Jianshe): Building a New China 27
2 Production First, Livelihood Second 29
Daqing: The Battlefield 34
Total Mobilization 39
An Alternative Landscape 45
Battlefield Communism: Integration of State and Society 61
3 Breakthrough on a Narrow Front 63
The Political Economy of Building Construction 67
Planning without Cities 78
"More, Faster, Better, and More Economic" 94
4 Celebrating Daqing: The Correct Path for Industrialization 95
Learning from Daqing 95
Worker-Peasant Villages on the Oil Field 105
Cities and Buildings Based on the Daqing Model 123
Industrialization without Urbanization 133
5 Living in an Urban-Rural Heterotopia 135
The Factory as a Production Machine 136
The Factory as a Work-Study School 148
The Factory as a Battlefield 151
6 Challenging the Daqing Model 164
The Red Flag on the Industrial Front 168
Growing Industrial Agglomeration 175
The Great Leap Outward 188
The Sinking of the Oil Rig 199
Epilogue 202
Notes 209
Bibliography 219
Index 233
