Szechwan
Szechwan

Author: Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Afansʹevskiĭ

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Published: 1962

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and Its Modern Fate
The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and Its Modern Fate

Author: Donald B. Wagner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1136804641

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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.

China's Campaign to 'Open Up the West'
China's Campaign to 'Open Up the West'

Author: David S. G. Goodman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-08

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780521613491

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The 2004 volume examines the newly adopted Chinese government policy designed to aid the development of China's western regions. It considers the political and economic context of the campaign and then examines its potential impact in seven provincial level jurisdictions - Xinjiang, Qinghai, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan and Guizhou.

Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
Civil Law in Qing and Republican China

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Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1994-08

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0804779279

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The opening of local archives to Western scholars in the 1980's has provided the basis for this reexamination of civil law in Qing and Republican China. This pathbreaking volume demonstrates that, contrary to previous scholarly understanding, Qing and Republican courts dealt extensively with such civil matters as land rights, debt, marriage, and inheritance, and did so with striking consistency and in conformity with the written code.

Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China
Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China

Author: David S. G. Goodman

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1986-10-09

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780521325301

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According to common misconception the Chinese political system is highly centralized. One result of this widely accepted view is that China specialists have often neglected the study of decision-making as a process. Concentrating upon the neighbouring but contrasting provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou during the decade before the Cultural Revolution, this book examines the interaction between centre and province and, without adopting a 'centralist' or a 'pluralist' viewpoint, argues that a spatial dimension is of necessity part of the Chinese decision-making process. Particular attention is paid to the variability of this interaction over time.