Events

Modern China Lecture featuring Tong Lam — Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization

CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Tong Lam, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto From Chairman Mao’s “receiving” of an ore in Zhongnanhai to the nationwide mapping of mineral resources and the mass movement for sighting and reporting minerals, the 1950s marked the beginning of what could be described as China’s age of extractivism. The intensifying interactions between […]