The World of Socialist Coal: Technology, Economy, and Environment in China in the context of the cooperation with the Eastern Bloc (1945-1991)

与东方集团的合作和技术交流在世纪后半叶的中华人民共和国（1949-）煤炭工业中发挥了什么作用？这个为期三年的项目将由柏林自由大学汉学系主办，以俄罗斯、德国、中国、波兰和捷克的档案为基础。该项目将重点关注中国政治动荡时期的煤炭工业，如大跃进（1928-61）的人为饥荒，灾难性的毛泽东工业化项目和文化大革命（1966-76），以及中国煤炭工业历史的长期轨迹和与前东方集团的合作。该项目将描绘东方集团和苏联的煤炭工业技术交流和贸易以及中国当地环境如何相互塑造的不同路径，背景和经验。该项目将探讨国际技术转让如何影响当地的社会和自然环境，以及当地的劳动过程、社会和环境环境如何影响国家煤炭工业和国际煤炭贸易。煤炭在中国的国内外政治中扮演了什么角色？中国为什么坚持用煤？中国的灾难性环境政策是否与德国相同？最终，我们的目标是通过研究国际和地方如何相互塑造，来书写中华人民共和国工业力量建立时中国煤炭的历史。

What role did the cooperation with the Eastern Bloc and technology exchange play in the People's Republic of China’s (1949-) coal industry in the second half of the twentieth century? This three year project based on the archival sources from Russian, German, Chinese, Polish, and Czech archives, will be hosted by the department of Sinology at Freie Universitaet Berlin. The project will focus on the coal industry during tumultuous China's politics of the man-made famine of the Great Leap Forward (1928-61), the disastrous Mao’s industrialization project, and the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) within the longer trajectory of the history of China’s coal industry and the cooperation with the territories of the former Eastern Bloc. The project will chart the varied paths, contexts and experiences of how the coal industry technical exchanges and trade in the Eastern bloc and the USSR and local contexts in China shaped each other. The project will explore how international technology transfer shaped the social and natural environment locally and how labour processes, social, and environmental setting on the local level shaped national coal industry and international coal trade. What role did coal play in China's domestic and external politics? Why did China stick to coal? Was it the same disastrous environmental policy in China as in East Germany? Ultimately, the aim is to write the history of China’s coal at the time of the foundation of the PRC industrial might by looking at how international and local shaped each other.