Lightning wires: the telegraph and China's technological modernization, 1860 - 1890

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 g...

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1. Verfasser: Baark, Erik (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Westport, Conn. [u.a.] Greenwood 1997
Schriftenreihe:Contributions in Asian studies 6
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Zusammenfassung: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 society.
Beschreibung:Zugl.: København, Univ., Diss., 1998
Beschreibung:216 S. Ill.
ISBN:0313300119

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