Railroads and the Transformation of China / / Elisabeth Köll.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Köll, Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Studies in Business History ; 52
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

To convey modern China’s history and the forces driving its economic success, rail has no equal. From warlordism to Cultural Revolution, railroads suffered the country’s ills but persisted because they were exemplary institutions. Elisabeth Köll shows why they remain essential to the PRC’s technocratic economic model for China’s future.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- A Note on Measures, Romanization, and Translations -- Introduction -- I. Competing Interests and Railroad Construction -- 1. Technology and Semicolonial Ventures -- 2. Managing Transitions in the Early Republic -- II. Railroads in the Market and Social Space -- 3. Moving Goods in the Marketplace -- 4. Moving People, Transmitting Ideas -- III. The Making and the Unmaking of the State -- 5. Professionalizing and Politicizing the Railroads -- 6. Crisis Management -- IV. On Track to Socialism -- 7. Postwar Reorganization and Expansion -- 8. Permanent Revolution and Continuous Reform -- Conclusion: The Legacies of China’s Railroad System -- Appendix A: Jin-Pu Railroad organization chart, ca. 1929 -- Appendix B: Revenue of major Chinese government railroad lines (thousand yuan per mile of line), 1915–1935 -- Appendix C: Freight transported by major Chinese government railroad lines (yuan per ton), 1915–1935 -- Appendix D: Number of passengers by ticket class, major Chinese government railroad lines, 1918–1935 -- Appendix E: Average miles per passenger journey by ticket class, major Chinese government railroad lines, 1918–1935 -- Appendix F: Freight designated for export (tons), shipped from Hankou to Guangzhou and onward to Hong Kong by train, October 18–December 31, 1937 -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index