Meeting technology's advance : social change in China and Zimbabwe in the railway age

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    • Gao, James Zheng

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Meeting technology's advance : social change in China and Zimbabwe in the railway age

James Zheng Gao

(Contributions in comparative colonial studies, no. 34)

Greenwood Press, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating significant social change. His principal concern is with indigenous people whose efforts to meet this technological advance has been neglected or underestimated. Gao shows how different cultural traditions, political situations, and individual interests create an attractive variety of local responses to the challenges and opportunities afforded by technology. He not only describes the final consequences of railway development, but emphasizes the dynamic process by which indigenous people first derived, then gradually lost, most of the gains from modern transport advances. In addition, Gao explores a number of permanent impacts of railways on the two areas, including demographic and structural changes, and divisions of race and class. An intriguing study for researchers and students of imperialism, and Chinese and African history.

目次

Abbreviations Introduction Troubled Beginnings Resisters and Collaborators Reaching the Market Railway Empires New Order, New Elite Conclusion Appendix A: Chronology of Major Chinese Railway Construction Appendix B: Chronology of Zimbabwean Railway Construction Bibliography Index

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