Voices from the protest movement in Chongqing

Chan, Anita; Unger, Jonathan

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Voices from the protest movement in Chongqing

Date

2015-01-01

Authors

Chan, Anita

Unger, Jonathan

Abstract

Chongqing is one of the great cities of China’s interior. Known to old-timers as Chungking, the city is best known outside China as the wartime capital of the Kuomintang during the Second World War. In the 1960s and 1970s, it became a major centre for the production of military hardware, under Mao’s ‘third front’ policy of concentrating militarily vital industries in the inner provinces. Today, having diversified, it manufactures some 30 per cent of the nation’s motorcycles and motor vehicles.