Railroads and the Transformation of China

by Elisabeth Köll

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation's economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present.

China's first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674368177
• ISBN13: 9780674368170
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"