%0 Journal Article
%T Sino
%A Christian Hess
%J Journal of Urban History
%@ 1552-6771
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0096144217710234
%X This article explores the building of urban socialism in the port city of Dalian from 1945 through the mid-1950s. Hailed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949 as ¡°New China¡¯s model metropolis,¡± this former Japanese colonial city was occupied by the Soviet military until 1950. Postwar geopolitics situated Dalian and its residents at the forefront of implementing Soviet-inspired reforms that led to an image of Dalian not only as a vanguard city of the People¡¯s Republic, but one intimately connected with the larger socialist world. The article argues that Dalian¡¯s postwar geopolitical position as a Sino-Soviet space led to a cross-pollination of attitudes, actions, and policies that differed from much of the urban scene throughout the People¡¯s Republic of China. It sheds new light on how the complex decolonization process of the early Cold War brought a Chinese city more closely into the Second World
%K urban socialism
%K colonial legacies
%K Sino-Soviet cooperation
%K socialist internationalism
%K Second World
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144217710234