A Great Undertaking: Mechanization and Social Change in a Late Imperial Chinese Coalmining Community

by Jeff Hornibrook

Jeff Hornibrook provides a unique, microcosmic look at the process of industrialization in one Chinese community at the turn of the twentieth century. Industrialization came late to China, but was ultimately embraced and hastened to aid the state's strategic and military interests. In Pingxiang County in the highlands of Jiangxi Province, coalmining was seasonal work; peasants rented mines from lineage leaders to work after the harvest. These traditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438456875
• ISBN13: 9781438456874
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"