Railroads and the transformation of China /
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Author / Creator: | Köll, Elisabeth, 1965- author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. ©2019 |
Description: | x, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard studies in business history ; 52 Harvard studies in business history ; 52. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11779752 |
Table of 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-Deceraber 31, 1937
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index