Covell Meyskens Assistant Professor Naval Postgraduate School Commons username: @cfmeyskens Twitter handle: cfmeyskens ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1282-8169 everydaylifeinmaoistchina.org Following 10 members View ActivityProfileSites 0CORE deposits 7Following 10Followers 2Groups 0DiscussionsDocs Academic Interestshistory of modern ChinaHistory of Science and TechnologySocial history Recent Commons Activity deposited Covell Meyskens. “Building … deposited Covell Meyskens. “Everyday … deposited Covell Meyskens. “Third Fro… deposited Liquidite, Capital, souverain… deposited Covell Meyskens. “Where Mao… AboutI am a historian of twentieth century China with particular interests in industrialization, revolution, and experiences and memories of war. In 2015, I received my PhD in History from the University of Chicago and then became an assistant professor in the department of National Security Affairs at the US Naval Postgraduate School. My first book is titled Mao’s Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China. It examines how the Chinese Communist Party industrialized inland regions in order to protect socialist China from American and Soviet threats. I am currently working on two book projects. The first one – The Three Gorges Dam: Building a Hydraulic Engine for China – analyzes state-led efforts to transform China’s Three Gorges region into a hydraulic engine to power national development. I am also in the process of researching a third book project tentatively titled, The People’s Army: A Social and Cultural History of the Military in China, 1927- present. My research has been supported by the Fulbright International Institute of Education, the Fulbright-Hays Commission, and the University of Chicago. CVView file Work Shared in COREArticlesCovell Meyskens. “Third Front Railroads and Industrial Modernity in Late Maoist China.” Twentieth Century China (fall 2015) .Liquidite, Capital, souverainteCovell Meyskens. “Inequality and Social Stratification in Maoist China.” Twentieth Century China 43 (2018), 196-202.Book chaptersCovell Meyskens. “Building a Dam for China in the Three Gorges Region, 1919-1971,” in Water, Technology and the Nation-State, edited by Filippo Menga and Erik Swyngedouw (London: Routledge, 2018), 207-222.Covell Meyskens.”Labour,” in Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi, eds. Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, and Christian Sorace (London: Verso, 2019).InterviewsCovell Meyskens. “Everyday Life in Mao’s China: a Q & A with historian Covell Meyskens,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 27, 2016.Covell Meyskens. “Where Mao Meets the Mundane: Everyday Life in a Bygone China,” New York Times, August 17, 2016. Other Publications Mao’s Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2020). Covell Meyskens. “Chinese Views of the Nuclear Endgame in North Korea.” Nonproliferation Review.” Vol 26, No. 5-6 (2019): 1-19. 柯尚哲 (Covell Meyskens). “Cong oumei guandian kan sanxian jianshe (Western Perspectives on the Third Front).” In Zhongguo gongchandang yu sanxian jianshe (The Chinese Communist Party and the Third Front), edited by Chen Xi, 569-579. Beijing: Zhonggong dangshi chubanshe, 2013. Covell Meyskens. “Searching for Security: Prospects for Peace in Sino-Foreign Relations,” Journal of International and Global Studies 5 (2014). Covell Meyskens. “Le Monde selon Katrina (The World According to Katrina),” Drôle d’époque 17 (2005) Covell Meyskens. “Guerre et Race dans le Pacifique : Signes et Pratiques (War and Race in the Pacific : Signs and Practices),” Drôle d’époque 16 (2005) Trauma, Narrative, and the Absence of Closure Blog Posts
