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Meeting Technology's Advance Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age
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James Zheng Gao
Book Code: GM0095
ISBN: 0-313-30095-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30095-0
240 pages, maps, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/1997
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
Series Number: 34
Reviews:
  • [a] unique contribution to Chinese studies....This is an illuminating work which is fascinating to read. It provides many useful insights. Most importantly, as a contribution to comparative colonial studies, this book focuses on indigenous people whose efforts to meet technological advance have been neglected or underestimated.
    —Journal of Contemporary China
Description: In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating significant social change. His principal concern is with indigenous people whose efforts to meet this technological advance has been neglected or underestimated. Gao shows how different cultural traditions, political situations, and individual interests create an attractive variety of local responses to the challenges and opportunities afforded by technology. He not only describes the final consequences of railway development, but emphasizes the dynamic process by which indigenous people first derived, then gradually lost, most of the gains from modern transport advances. In addition, Gao explores a number of permanent impacts of railways on the two areas, including demographic and structural changes, and divisions of race and class. An intriguing study for researchers and students of imperialism, and Chinese and African history.
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Troubled Beginnings
  • Resisters and Collaborators
  • Reaching the Market
  • Railway Empires
  • New Order, New Elite
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Chronology of Major Chinese Railway Construction
  • Appendix B: Chronology of Zimbabwean Railway Construction
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 97-6412
LCC Class: HE3285
Dewey Class: 303
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