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In the early twentieth century, the first large batch of Chinese civil engineers had graduated from the USA, and together with their American senior colleagues returned to China. They were enthusiastic about reconstructing the young republic by building new railways, highways, and canals, but what the engineers experienced in China, including mismanaged railways, useless highways, and silted canals, did not always meet their expectations and ideals. In this book, Thorben Pelzer makes the stories of these Chinese and American engineers come to life through exploring previously unpublished letters, rare images, maps, and a rich biographical dataset. He argues that the experiences of these engineers include a myriad of contradictions, disillusionment, and discontent, keeping the engineering profession in a constant flux of searching for its meaning and its place in Republican China.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Thorben Pelzer |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 2023-07-31 |
File |
: 293 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004549555 |
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Using newly analyzed sources and database analysis, this book tells the stories of the personal friendships and professional failures of Chinese and American engineers in Republican China.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Thorben Pelzer |
Publisher |
: China Studies |
Release |
: 2023-07 |
File |
: 0 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004549471 |
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In the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also in knowledge of China itself. A rising generation of Chinese scientists, engineers, and administrators was eager to address this state of affairs and began to retrace the footsteps of Western explorers who had crisscrossed China during the preceding century. The nine case studies assembled in this book show how a new cohort of professional Chinese explorers traveled, studied, appropriated, and reshaped national space from the 1920s to the 1950s. In some instances, the explorers drew directly from the fieldwork practices of their Western predecessors. In others, they trained compilers to collect and systematize local knowledge that could be passed up the administrative hierarchy to government and national institutions. Their projects helped to claim natural resources, prepare for infrastructural development, and create new institutionalized knowledge and public engagement with textual representations of China’s geobody. This book elucidates the ways in which knowledge production in early twentieth-century China centered on space and contributed to China’s transformation into a modern nation-state.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Elisabeth Kaske |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Release |
: 2024-08-19 |
File |
: 300 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783111245362 |
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: United States |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1976 |
File |
: 1160 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105210122334 |
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Genre |
: Bar associations |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 2002 |
File |
: 488 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105063856848 |
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: |
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: |
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: 1905 |
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: 492 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89061900890 |