@article{1446201,
      recid = {1446201},
      author = {Wang, Xianqun,},
      title = {Western technology and China's industrial development :  steamship building in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book explores how steam engine technology was  transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second  half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the  transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the  long-term problem in historiography that puts too much  emphasis on politics but ignores the techno-scientific and  institutional requirements for launching such an endeavor.  It examines how translations broke linguistic and  conceptual barriers and brought new a understanding of heat  to the Chinese readership. It also explores how the Fuzhou  Navy Yard's shipbuilding and training program trained  China's first generation of shipbuilding workers and  engineers. It argues that conservatism against technology  was not to blame for China's slow development in steamship  building. Rather, it was government officials' failure to  realize the scale of institutional and techno-scientific  changes required in importing and disperse new knowledge  and skills. Hsien-ch'un Wang is the associate professor at  National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He works on the  history of Western science and technology in modern China.  He is also interested in how modern technology has played a  role in shaping Taiwanese society in the twentieth  century.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446201},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59813-4},
}