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03428aam a2200361 i 4500 001 8BC3DF106CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 008 180427t20192019mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018014456 020 $a 0674368177 020 $a 9780674368170 035 $a (OCoLC)1023093341 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d TOH $d HLS $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a HE3288 K65 2019 100 1 $a KoÌll, Elisabeth, $d 1965- $e author. 245 10 $a Railroads and the transformation of China / $c Elisabeth KoÌll. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a x, 396 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Harvard studies in business history ; $v 52 520 $a As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation's economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China's first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the "battle for steel," and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to "make revolution" across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth KoÌll's expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, KoÌll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As KoÌll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC's politically charged, technocratic economic model for China's future.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Competing interests and railroad construction: Technology and semicolonial ventures -- Managing transitions in the early Republic -- Part II. Railroads in the market and social space: Moving goods in the marketplace -- Moving people, transmitting ideas -- Part III. The making and the unmaking of the state: Professionalizing and politicizing the railroads -- Crisis management -- Part IV. On track to socialism: Postwar reorganization and expansion -- Permanent revolution and continuous reform -- Conclusion: The legacies of China's railroad system. 650 0 $a Railroads $z China $x History. 650 0 $a Railroads and state $z China $x History. 650 0 $a Infrastructure (Economics) $z China. 830 0 $a Harvard studies in business history ; $v 52. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190605013339.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8BC3DF106CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search