The traditional Chinese iron industry and its modern fate
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The traditional Chinese iron industry and its modern fate
（Report series / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, no. 32）
Curzon, 1997
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Bibliography: p. 80-102
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the interactions among technological, economic and geographic factors. The traditional technology of iron production is described together with the ways in which it changed and developed in response to upheavals wrought by foreign competition, war and revolution and by the growth in China of a modern iron industry.
Many of the book's findings are counter-intuitive, and will provide food for thought in the study of Third World industrial development. The author has written widely on the history of science and technology in China, and is currently engaged in writing the volume on ferrous metallurgy for Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The changing economic geography of the traditional Chinese iron industry
- Chapter 3 Traditional Chinese iron production techniques
- Chapter 4 Small-scale ironworks of the mountains of Dabieshan
- Chapter 5 Large-scale ironworks in Sichuan
- Chapter 6 Crucible smelting in Shanxi
- Chapter 7 Large- and small-scale ironworks in Guangdong
- Chapter 8 Concluding remarks
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