图书标签: 铁路 近代史 历史 柯丽莎 中国研究 铁路史 物质文化史 交通
发表于2024-12-23
Railroads and the Transformation of China pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
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.
Elisabeth Köll is the William Payden Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
非常好的话题。以铁路发展为棱镜,观察中国在二十世纪的变迁。可以带出全球史,商业史,技术史,制度史等多个视角。遗憾的是,读起来感觉作者并没有成功地讲好这个故事,多少有些归于平淡了,仿佛只是串联起来了关于铁路的各种细节的侧面而已。或许是时间(100+年)和地域(三条铁路,从南到北)的覆盖面都太广了?无法在一本书里参透?有时间后,会看一下关于美国、日本等铁路发展与工业化的书,或许会调整打分。
评分这本书告诉我们:地方铁路局权力大是因为历史因素,即使可以用十五页的论文说清
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评分这本书告诉我们:地方铁路局权力大是因为历史因素,即使可以用十五页的论文说清
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Railroads and the Transformation of China pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024