Railroads and the transformation of China /

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation's economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing E...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Köll, Elisabeth, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Colección:Harvard studies in business history ; 52.
Temas:
Railroads > China > History.
Railroads and state > China > History.
Infrastructure (Economics) > China.
Transports ferroviaires > Politique gouvernementale > Chine > Histoire.
TRANSPORTATION > General.
TRANSPORTATION > Railroads > Pictorial.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Railroads.
Railroads and state.
China.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Competing interests and railroad construction. Technology and semicolonial ventures ; Managing transitions in the early Republic
  • II. Railroads in the market and social space. Moving goods in the marketplace ; Moving people, transmitting ideas
  • III. The making and the unmaking of the State. Professionalizing and politicizing the railroads ; Crisis management
  • IV. On track to socialism. Postwar reorganization and expansion ; Permanent revolution and continuous reform
  • Conclusion: The legacies of China's railroad system.

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