Railroads and the Transformation of China / / Elisabeth Köll.
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 technocra...
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Köll, Elisabeth, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Railroads and the Transformation of China / Elisabeth Köll. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (340 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Harvard Studies in Business History ; 52 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Infrastructure (Economics) China. Railroads and state China History. Railroads China History. HISTORY / Asia / China. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110652031 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674916418 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674916418 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674916418/original |
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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 |
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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 |
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