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Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890 (Contributions in Asian Studies)
Lightning Wires The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization 18601890 - Contributions in Asian Studies
Author: Erik Baark
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780313300110
ISBN-10: 0313300119
Publication Date: 3/30/1997
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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