The Kaiping Mines 1877-1912
Author: Ellsworth C. Carlson
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 26
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Author: Ellsworth C. Carlson
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 26
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Published: 1957
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ellsworth C. Carlson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1971-06-30
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1684171326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Kaiping Enterprise was the first successful, large scale effort to introduce Western technology and methods into Chinese industrial production. This serves as a case study on Chinese attitudes towards Western industrialzation from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Ellsworth Carlson also investigates how the Chinese political, social, and economic environment necessitate modification or abandonment of Western influences.
Author: Edward J. M. Rhoads
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9888028863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chinese Educational Mission was one of the earliest efforts at educational modernization in China. As part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing government sent 120 students to New England to live and study for a decade, before they were abruptly summoned home to China in 1881. This book, based upon extensive research in local archives and newspapers, focuses on the experiences of the students during their nine-year stay in the United States. Historians of modern China will find this book highly relevant because of its detailed account of one of the major projects of the Self-Strengthening Movement. To date, there are at most two credible studies in English and Chinese on the Chinese Educational Mission; both are deficient in source citation and tend to dwell on the students' experiences after their return to China rather than during their stay in America. This volume will also appeal to specialists in Asian-American studies, for its comparing and contrasting the experiences of the Chinese students with those of other Chinese in the United States during a period of rising anti-Chinese sentiment, which culminated in the enactment of Chinese Exclusion in 1882. This book offers a slightly different perspective than most other works on the nature of the anti-Chinese movement, which may have been more class-based rather than race-based. The compare and contrast of students from China with those from Japan, which also sent large numbers of students to New England at roughly the same period of time, will be of interest to East Asian comparative historians as well. Edward J. M. Rhoadsis a professor emeretus in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author ofChina's Republican Revolution: The Case of Kwangtung, 1895-1913andManchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928. "Rhoads has meticulously constructed the individual and collective histories of the 120 young men and boys sent by a beleaguered late Qing government to live and acquire English and Western knowledge in white New England families, schools and universities. As the vanguard of legions of Chinese students who have studied in the U.S. since, and as contemporaries of the far more numerous Chinese coolies whose paths they never crossed, this compelling study adds a surprising new chapter to early Asian American history." - Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History and Ethnic Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
Author: Albert Feuerwerker
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1961-06-30
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1684171423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors list and briefly describe nearly 500 books on modern Chinese history published in Communist China between 1949 and 1959. Includes an introductory essay.
Author: Dwight H. Perkins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 135153310X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgricultural Development in China explains how China's farm economy historically responded to the demands of a rising population. Dwight H. Perkins begins in the year A.D. 1368, the founding date of the Ming dynasty. More importantly, it marked the end of nearly two centuries of violent destruction and loss of life primarily connected with the rise and fall of the Mongols. The period beginning with the fourteenth century was also one in which there were no obvious or dramatic changes in farming techniques or in rural institutions. The rise in population and hence in the number of farmers made possible the rise in farm output through increased double cropping, extending irrigation systems, and much else. Issues explored in this book include the role of urbanization and long distance trade in allowing farmers in a few regions to specialize in crops most suitable to their particular region. Backing up this analysis of agricultural development is a careful examination of the quality of Chinese historical data. This classic volume, now available in a paperback edition, includes a new introduction assessing the continuing importance of this work to understanding the Chinese economy. It will be invaluable for a new generation of economists, historians, and Asian studies specialists and is part of Transaction's Asian Studies series.
Author: Debin Ma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 867
ISBN-13: 1316998592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from 1800, charts this wrenching process of an ancient empire being transformed to re-emerge as a major world power. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of pioneering international scholarship in all dimensions of economic history to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of this tumultuous and dramatic transformation. In many cases, it offers a fundamental reinterpretation of major themes in Chinese economic history, such as the role of ideology, the rise of new institutions, human capital and public infrastructure, the impact of Western and Japanese imperialism, the role of external trade and investment, and the evolution of living standards in both the pre-Communist and Communist eras. The volume includes seven important chapters on the Mao and reform eras and provides a critical historical perspective linking the past with the present and future.
Author: Chi-ming Hou
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780415190152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: John King Fairbank
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780674924383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on China during the last twenty-five years, the author illuminates the country's traditions, customs, political structure, and economy.