BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:The Contemporary History Institute hosts Dr. Sarah Chang discus sing "Produce First and Consume Later: Factory Construction and the Rural-U rban Divide During the Great Leap Forward" on Thursday October 3 at 5:00 p. m. in Bentley Hall 124.\n\n \n\nDr. Chang holds the position of Assistant P rofessor in History at Miami (OH) University. Her research examines the ris e and fall of large state-owned factories in southwestern China. Her work f ocuses on how gender and the rural-urban divide served as important axes of difference that facilitated the expropriation of labor and resources in th e nation’s pursuit of a communist utopia. Inspired by her childhood memorie s growing up in the residential neighborhood of a steel tube factory\, Dr. Chang’s current book project details the biographies of two steel mills in Chengdu\, China\, focusing on the creation and disintegration of socialist industrial spaces in China and the experiences of the workers\, families\, and children who lived in them.\n\n \n\nThis event is free and open to the public. DTEND:20241003T221500Z DTSTAMP:20241122T235246Z DTSTART:20241003T210000Z GEO:39.326372;-82.102202 LOCATION:Bentley Hall\, Room 124 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Contemporary History Institute | Dr. Sarah Chang\, October 3 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_47250427192894 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/contemporary-history-institute-dr-sarah -chang-october-3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR