Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (eBook)

Ying Jia Tan (Autor)

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2021
294 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5897-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare.

Tan traces this history from the textile-factory power shortages of the late Qing, through the struggle over China's electrical industries during its civil war, to the 1937 Japanese invasion that robbed China of 97 percent of its generative capacity. Along the way, he demonstrates that power industries became an integral part of the nation's military-industrial complex, showing how competing regimes asserted economic sovereignty through the nationalization of electricity.

Based on a wide range of published records, engineering reports, and archival collections in China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States, Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 argues that, even in times of peace, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency and longevity.

Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Autor

Ying Jia Tan is Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Forging Resilience
1. Spinning the Threads of Discontent
2. Defending the Public Good
3. Unleashing Fire and Fury
4. Dawning of the Copper Age
5. Turning the Tide
6. Waging Electrical Warfare
7. Manufacturing Technocracy
Conclusion: Hauntings from Past Energy Transitions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b&w halftones, 3 maps
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: Electrification in China, East Asian Energy Crisis,Energy politics in China, Infrastructural development in modern China, chinese economy, electricity in china,
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-5897-7 / 1501758977
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-5897-3 / 9781501758973