Engineering Trouble.
"In the early twentieth century, the first large batch of Chinese civil engineers had graduated from the USA, and together with their American senior colleagues returned to China. They were enthusiastic about reconstructing the young republic by building new railways, highways, and canals, but...
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| Superior document: | China Studies ; v.52 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | China Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : open roads in China
- Nationalism and the cosmopolitical : education overseas, 1905-1918
- Financial constraint : the Grand Canal board, 1918-1922
- Political dependency : Wang Jingchun at the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1919-1924
- The visible college : the early association of Chinese & American engineers, 1919-1927
- Cohesion and exclusion : The Relief Commission paves the provinces, 1926-1934
- Demise without exhaustion : the withdrawal of US engineers, 1928-1941
- Wartime engineering : Ling Hongxun under pressure, 1932-1945.