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- Title
Revolution Offshore, Capitalism Onshore: Ships and the Changing Relationship between China and the World.
- Authors
Taomo ZHOU
- Abstract
This essay tells a backstory of the Belt and Road Initiative by tracing the voyages of the Minghua and two other ships managed by the China Ocean Shipping Bureau--both as mobile vessels at sea and as a permanent presence on land. When mobile at sea in the Mao period, these ships functioned as vessels not only for passengers and commodities, but also for Maoist ideology. The Minghua's retirement to Shenzhen then coincided with China's transition from the Mao to the Deng era. Having bid farewell to the sea, the ship became part of the city's landscape and was turned into a dynamic experiment field for the market economy and a medium through which ideas travel and identities shift.
- Subjects
CAPITALISM; BELT &; Road Initiative; VOYAGES &; travels; CHINA Ocean Shipping (Group) Co.; SHIPS
- Publication
Made in China Journal, 2021, Vol 6, Issue 2, p104
- ISSN
2652-6352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22459/mic.06.02.2021.13