Author: Thorben Pelzer
Publisher: China Studies
ISBN: 9789004549470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using newly analyzed sources and database analysis, this book tells the stories of the personal friendships and professional failures of Chinese and American engineers in Republican China.
Engineering Trouble: Us-Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905-1945
Author: Thorben Pelzer
Publisher: China Studies
ISBN: 9789004549470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using newly analyzed sources and database analysis, this book tells the stories of the personal friendships and professional failures of Chinese and American engineers in Republican China.
Publisher: China Studies
ISBN: 9789004549470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using newly analyzed sources and database analysis, this book tells the stories of the personal friendships and professional failures of Chinese and American engineers in Republican China.
Engineering Trouble: US–Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905–1945
Author: Thorben Pelzer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004549552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In the early twentieth century, the first large batch of Chinese civil engineers had graduated from the USA, and together with their American senior colleagues returned to China. They were enthusiastic about reconstructing the young republic by building new railways, highways, and canals, but what the engineers experienced in China, including mismanaged railways, useless highways, and silted canals, did not always meet their expectations and ideals. In this book, Thorben Pelzer makes the stories of these Chinese and American engineers come to life through exploring previously unpublished letters, rare images, maps, and a rich biographical dataset. He argues that the experiences of these engineers include a myriad of contradictions, disillusionment, and discontent, keeping the engineering profession in a constant flux of searching for its meaning and its place in Republican China.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004549552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In the early twentieth century, the first large batch of Chinese civil engineers had graduated from the USA, and together with their American senior colleagues returned to China. They were enthusiastic about reconstructing the young republic by building new railways, highways, and canals, but what the engineers experienced in China, including mismanaged railways, useless highways, and silted canals, did not always meet their expectations and ideals. In this book, Thorben Pelzer makes the stories of these Chinese and American engineers come to life through exploring previously unpublished letters, rare images, maps, and a rich biographical dataset. He argues that the experiences of these engineers include a myriad of contradictions, disillusionment, and discontent, keeping the engineering profession in a constant flux of searching for its meaning and its place in Republican China.
Stilwell's Mission to China
The Army Air Forces in World War II: Men and planes
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Author: Michael D. Swaine
Publisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Examines China's grand strategy for national security in the past, present, and future.
Publisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Examines China's grand strategy for national security in the past, present, and future.
Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004469656
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004469656
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
China and the International System, 1840-1949
Author: David Scott
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
Work Point System in Rural China
Author: Yingwei Huang
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book provides insights into China’s agricultural collectivization by an analysis of the Chinese work point system, which is a series of labor organization rules and regulations used for the calculation of the amount and quality of labor and for determining the form of labor organization.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book provides insights into China’s agricultural collectivization by an analysis of the Chinese work point system, which is a series of labor organization rules and regulations used for the calculation of the amount and quality of labor and for determining the form of labor organization.
Intimate Communities
Author: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520300467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520300467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.