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- catalog abstract "Baark examines the transfer of telegraph technology to China in the late nineteenth century. He shows how the initial Chinese rejection of the telegraph as an "inconvenient technology" contributed to violent conflicts between foreigners and the Chinese, but that this resistence gradually gave way to an assimilation of the telegraph into Chinese society.".
- catalog contributor b10266936.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "1 The Dilemmas of China's Technological Modernization -- 2 China's Nineteenth-Century Modernizers: Policies and Personalities -- 3 The Telegraph: Challenges of Communication -- 4 "Inconvenient Technology": Telegraphs Arrive at China's Shores, 1860-1870 -- 5 The Telegraph Lines in Fujian, 1874-1877 -- 6 The Genesis of the Chinese Telegraph Network, 1881-1889 -- 7 Chinese Modernizers: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century.".
- catalog description "Baark examines the transfer of telegraph technology to China in the late nineteenth century. He shows how the initial Chinese rejection of the telegraph as an "inconvenient technology" contributed to violent conflicts between foreigners and the Chinese, but that this resistence gradually gave way to an assimilation of the telegraph into Chinese society.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-210) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 216 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Lightning wires.".
- catalog identifier "0313300119 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lightning wires.".
- catalog isPartOf "Contributions in Asian studies, 1053-1866 ; no. 6".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,".
- catalog relation "Lightning wires.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog subject "384.1/0951 20".
- catalog subject "HE8424 .B3 1997".
- catalog subject "Technological innovations Economic aspects China History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Telegraph China History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 The Dilemmas of China's Technological Modernization -- 2 China's Nineteenth-Century Modernizers: Policies and Personalities -- 3 The Telegraph: Challenges of Communication -- 4 "Inconvenient Technology": Telegraphs Arrive at China's Shores, 1860-1870 -- 5 The Telegraph Lines in Fujian, 1874-1877 -- 6 The Genesis of the Chinese Telegraph Network, 1881-1889 -- 7 Chinese Modernizers: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century.".
- catalog title "Lightning wires : the telegraph and China's technological modernization, 1860-1890 / Erik Baark.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".