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001446201 1001_ $$aWang, Xianqun,$$eauthor.
001446201 24510 $$aWestern technology and China's industrial development :$$bsteamship building in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895 /$$cHsien-ch'un Wang.
001446201 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2022.
001446201 300__ $$a1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) :$$billustrations.
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001446201 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia
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001446201 500__ $$aIncludes index.
001446201 5050_ $$aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Discovering Steam Power in China, 1828-1865 -- Chapter 3: Translating Heat: Tackling Old conceptions with new ideas, 1855-1868 -- Chapter 4: More Translations, Limited Understanding: the Achievements and Constraints of Late Qing Translations of Heat, 1868-1895 -- Chapter 5: Training Workers and Engineers: The Fuzhou Navy Yard, 1866-1895 -- Chapter 6: To Build or To Buy? Financing the Fuzhou Navy Yard, 1866-1895 -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
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001446201 520__ $$aThis 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.
001446201 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 27, 2022).
001446201 650_0 $$aSteamboats$$zChina$$xHistory.
001446201 650_6 $$aBateaux à vapeur$$zChine$$xHistoire.
001446201 655_7 $$aHistory.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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