Lightning wires : the telegraph and China's technological modernization, 1860-1890

著者

• Baark, Erik

書誌事項

Lightning wires : the telegraph and China's technological modernization, 1860-1890

Erik Baark

（Contributions in Asian studies, no. 6）

Greenwood Press, 1997

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-210) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Baark examines the transfer of telegraph technology to China in the late nineteenth century. He shows how the initial Chinese rejection of the telegraph as an inconvenient technology contributed to violent conflicts between foreigners and the Chinese, but that this resistence gradually gave way to an assimilation of the telegraph into Chinese society. The transfer and assimilation of advanced technology has been an important challenge for China's modernization for more than a century. Baark examines some of the dilemmas faced by Chinese modernizers of the yangwu (Western affairs) movement from the 1860s to the 1890s. Telegraph technology emerged in the West on the basis of scientific discoveries in electricity in the early nineteenth century, and was greeted with enthusiasm by governments and the public alike. The Chinese attitudes to the telegraph, however, were informed by entirely different political and cultural priorities. Baark examines the tensions which existed between the Chinese and the foreign companies seeking to extend telegraph technology to East Asian cities, and he shows how the domestic network was shaped by indigenous social and cultural forces. This book will be of considerable interest to historians of modern China, technology, and economic development.

目次

Preface The Dilemmas of China's Technological Modernization China's Nineteenth-Century Modernizers: Policies and Personalities The Telegraph: Challenges of Communication "Inconvenient Technology"--Telegraphs Arrive at China's Shores, 1860-1870 The Telegraph Lines in Fujian, 1874-1877 The Genesis of the Chinese Telegraph Network, 1881-1889 Chinese Modernizers: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA33677985
• ISBN:
  • 0313300119
• LCCN: 96024217
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Westport, Conn. ; London
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 216 p., [7] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HE8424
  • DC20 : 384.1/0951
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Telegraph -- China -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- China -- History -- 19th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA18200182