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Chinese Miners in Japanese Manchuria, 1905–1945 - Limin Teh

Chinese Miners in Japanese Manchuria, 1905–1945

Labouring for Coal

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Buch | Hardcover
VI, 275 Seiten
2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-05916-1 (ISBN)
CHF 164,75 inkl. MwSt
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This book chronicles the history of Chinese miners in one of the largest mines in Northeast Asia from 1900 to 1948, situating this emergent working class at the nexus of industrial capitalism, imperial expansion, and nation-state construction. Coal from Fushun (in present-day Liaoning province) fuelled industrial development that enabled the JAPANESE EMPIRE and later rival Chinese regimes to secure their economic, political, and military presence in the region. In turn, the extraction, processing, and distribution of Fushun coal depended on rendering immobile previously mobile migrant workers through coercion, surveillance, and incentives. The loss of mobility for these migrant workers ultimately resulted in their dependence on the mine for their livelihood. Drawing on Chinese and Japanese archival sources, this book investigates the global forces and environmental conditions that shaped the rise of these interdependent yet asymmetrical relations, and illuminates how coal extraction under industrial capitalism subsumed human labor while concurrently reproducing unequal power relations between social groups.

Limin Teh is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She has written on the history of race and mining labour, and the history of Chinese labour and its global connections.

1. Introduction.- 2. Mining the Dragon Vein, 5000 BCE-1910 CE.- 3. Fuelling Imperial Expansion, 1905-1935.- 4. Regulating Chinese Labour: 1905-1935.- 5. Mobility and Resistance of Chinese Labour, 1910-1935.- 6. Underground Factory, 1931-1945.- 7. Mining Livelihoods after Empire, 1945-1948.- 8. Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Labour in History and Society
Zusatzinfo VI, 275 p. 13 illus., 9 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Schlagworte Chinese labour history • Chinese miners • Chinese regime • Coal extraction • coal-mining • energy history • Fossil fiels • Fushun • Global Labour History • industrial capitalism • industrialisation • Japanese Empire • Migrant Workers • migration history • miners • Northeast Asia • proletarianization
ISBN-10 3-032-05916-X / 303205916X
ISBN-13 978-3-032-05916-1 / 9783032059161
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