Writings

 

  1. Covell Meyskens and Arunabh Ghosh, “The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’sRepublic of China, ” Environment and History. Volume 31, Number 4 (2025): 557–576.
  2. Covell Meyskens, “After Empire?: Cold War scholarship on Mao s China,” Cold War History (2025): 599-620.
  3. Covell Meyskens, “Marveling at a World so Changed: The Three Gorges Project in Mao’s China,” in How Maoism Was Made: Reconstructing China, 1949-1965, eds. Aaron Moore and Jennifer Altehenger (Oxford University Press, 2024), 232-253. 
  4. Covell Meyskens, “The Three Gorges Dam and Sino-American Hydraulic Planning,” in Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949, eds. Zach Fredman and Judd Kinzley (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 95-114.
  5. Covell Meyskens,”China’s Strategic Space in the Mao Era,” National Bureau of Asian Research, Mapping China’s Strategic Space Project, August 23, 2023.
  6. Covell Meyskens, “China’s Disengagement with the United States,” Foreign Policy, March 8, 2023, https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/08/china-disengagement-america-cold-war/.
  7. Covell Meyskens,”The Makings of a Cold War Motor City,” in Material Contradictions in Mao’s China, eds. Jennifer Altehnger and Denise Ho (University of Washington Press, 2022), 200-218.
  8. Covell Meyskens. “Mao’s Communist Party Dictatorship: Origins and Development.” In Dictators and Autocrats: How They Obtained Power and Managed Holding onto it, edited by Klaus Larres, 1-23. (London: Routledge, 2021).
  9. Covell Meyskens. “Rethinking the Political Economy of Development in Mao’s China.” positions: asia critique (November 2021): 1-19.
  10. Covell Meyskens. “Experiencing the Cold War at Shanghai’s Secret Military Industrial Complex.” Cold War History (2021): 429-447.
  11. Covell Meyskens. “Dreaming of a Three Gorges Dam amid the Troubles of Republican China.” Journal of Modern Chinese History Vol. 15 (2021): 176-194.
  12. Covell Meyskens, “There Never Was Cold War China,” Wilson Center Cold War International History Project,September 9, 2020, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/there-never-was-cold-war-china.
  13. Covell Meyskens. Mao’s Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
  14. Covell Meyskens. “Radio in Mao’s China.” Mao Era in Objects  (London: King’s College Digital Lab, 2020).
  15. Covell Meyskens. “Chinese Views of the Nuclear Endgame in North Korea.” Nonproliferation Review Vol 26, No. 5-6 (2019): 1-19.
  16. 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).
  17. Covell 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.
  18. Covell Meyskens. “Inequality and Social Stratification in Maoist China.” Twentieth Century China 43 (2018), 196-202.
  19. Covell Meyskens. “Where Mao Meets the Mundane: Everyday Life in a Bygone China,” New York Times, August 17, 2016.
  20. Covell Meyskens. “Everyday Life in Mao’s China: a Q & A with historian Covell Meyskens,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 27, 2016.
  21. Covell Meyskens. “Third Front Railroads and Industrial Modernity in Late Maoist China.” Twentieth Century China (fall 2015) .
  22. 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.
  23. Covell Meyskens. “Searching for Security: Prospects for Peace in Sino-Foreign Relations,” Journal of International and Global Studies 5 (2014).
  24. Covell Meyskens. “Le Monde selon Katrina (The World According to Katrina),” Drôle d’époque 17 (2005)
  25. 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)
  26. Covell Meyskens. “Liquidité, Capital, Souveraineté (Liquidity, Capital, Sovereignty),” Lignes 16 (2005).
  27. Trauma, Narrative, and the Absence of Closure

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  1. This is a wonderful blog. Thanks for maintaining it. As a student working on the Mao era, I’ll be a loyal reader! Y. Dong

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