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This article explains how and why the Chinese Communist Party drew on the industrial and technological expertise of thousands of Japanese technicians stranded in mainland China after World War Two.
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My findings show how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began a long-term reconceptualization of how national power was intimately connected to technology and industrial capacity, and that the CCP saw Japanese technicians as a vital element in transforming China into a modern and powerful nation.
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This page is a summary of: Reconstructing China: Japanese technicians and industrialization in the early years of the People's Republic of China, Modern Asian Studies, August 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x15000074.
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