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2024-11-07
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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
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
評分非常好的話題。以鐵路發展為棱鏡,觀察中國在二十世紀的變遷。可以帶齣全球史,商業史,技術史,製度史等多個視角。遺憾的是,讀起來感覺作者並沒有成功地講好這個故事,多少有些歸於平淡瞭,仿佛隻是串聯起來瞭關於鐵路的各種細節的側麵而已。或許是時間(100+年)和地域(三條鐵路,從南到北)的覆蓋麵都太廣瞭?無法在一本書裏參透?有時間後,會看一下關於美國、日本等鐵路發展與工業化的書,或許會調整打分。
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
評分沒有想象的那麼好。乾嘛不給看檔案。
評分非常好的話題。以鐵路發展為棱鏡,觀察中國在二十世紀的變遷。可以帶齣全球史,商業史,技術史,製度史等多個視角。遺憾的是,讀起來感覺作者並沒有成功地講好這個故事,多少有些歸於平淡瞭,仿佛隻是串聯起來瞭關於鐵路的各種細節的側麵而已。或許是時間(100+年)和地域(三條鐵路,從南到北)的覆蓋麵都太廣瞭?無法在一本書裏參透?有時間後,會看一下關於美國、日本等鐵路發展與工業化的書,或許會調整打分。
Railroads and the Transformation of China 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載