The Resource Railroads and the transformation of China, Elisabeth Köll
Railroads and the transformation of China, Elisabeth Köll
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- Summary
- 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 Empire to the present. China's first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the "battle for steel," and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to "make revolution" across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll's expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC's politically charged, technocratic economic model for China's future.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 396 pages
- Contents
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- Part I. Competing interests and railroad construction: Technology and semicolonial ventures
- Managing transitions in the early Republic
- Part II. Railroads in the market and social space: Moving goods in the marketplace
- Moving people, transmitting ideas
- Part III. The making and the unmaking of the state: Professionalizing and politicizing the railroads
- Crisis management
- Part IV. On track to socialism: Postwar reorganization and expansion
- Permanent revolution and continuous reform
- Conclusion: The legacies of China's railroad system
- Isbn
- 9780674368170
- Label
- Railroads and the transformation of China
- Title
- Railroads and the transformation of China
- Statement of responsibility
- Elisabeth Köll
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 Empire to the present. China's first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the "battle for steel," and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to "make revolution" across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll's expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC's politically charged, technocratic economic model for China's future.--
- Assigning source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Köll, Elisabeth
- Dewey number
- 385.0951
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Harvard studies in business history
- Series volume
- 52
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Railroads
- Railroads and state
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Label
- Railroads and the transformation of China, Elisabeth Köll
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. Competing interests and railroad construction: Technology and semicolonial ventures -- Managing transitions in the early Republic -- Part II. Railroads in the market and social space: Moving goods in the marketplace -- Moving people, transmitting ideas -- Part III. The making and the unmaking of the state: Professionalizing and politicizing the railroads -- Crisis management -- Part IV. On track to socialism: Postwar reorganization and expansion -- Permanent revolution and continuous reform -- Conclusion: The legacies of China's railroad system
- Control code
- on1023093341
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- x, 396 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674368170
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1023093341
- Label
- Railroads and the transformation of China, Elisabeth Köll
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. Competing interests and railroad construction: Technology and semicolonial ventures -- Managing transitions in the early Republic -- Part II. Railroads in the market and social space: Moving goods in the marketplace -- Moving people, transmitting ideas -- Part III. The making and the unmaking of the state: Professionalizing and politicizing the railroads -- Crisis management -- Part IV. On track to socialism: Postwar reorganization and expansion -- Permanent revolution and continuous reform -- Conclusion: The legacies of China's railroad system
- Control code
- on1023093341
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- x, 396 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674368170
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1023093341
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