Elisabeth Köll is the William Payden Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
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 that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion.
The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
發表於2024-11-27
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圖書標籤: 鐵路 近代史 曆史 柯麗莎 中國研究 鐵路史 物質文化史 交通
沒有想象的那麼好。乾嘛不給看檔案。
評分這本書告訴我們:地方鐵路局權力大是因為曆史因素,即使可以用十五頁的論文說清
評分目前看瞭1937之前的部分。製度變遷,很多檔案,以津浦鐵路為主。從我希望把握big picture、需要具體數字、關注經濟相關問題的角度,並不是最閤適的書。不過舉的例子裏確實有相當多有趣的細節,比如年畫和鐵路知識的傳播,還有fragmentation引發的鐵路局的分割。
評分柯麗莎老師洋洋灑灑寫瞭一本“中國鐵路百年發展史”.延續之前的思路.將鐵路係統看作“製度”去討論.以津浦綫為綫索,討論鐵路行政部門建立的同時,形成中央與地方有關權力分配的問題.除此之外.更多是關注鐵路所影響到的“人”的生活,購地.教育製度.規訓.工程師群體齣現等等現象,都以活生生的例子來反映.看到最後有點內心澎湃激動啊hhhh
評分這本書告訴我們:地方鐵路局權力大是因為曆史因素,即使可以用十五頁的論文說清
Railroads and the Transformation of China 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載