Western technology and China's industrial development : steamship building in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895 / Hsien-ch'un Wang.
Wang, Xianqun, author.
2022
VK101
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Title Western technology and China's industrial development : steamship building in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895 / Hsien-ch'un Wang.
Author Wang, Xianqun, author.
ISBN 9781137598134 (electronic bk.)
1137598131 (electronic bk.)
9781137599032 (print)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59813-4
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-59813-4 doi
Call Number VK101
Dewey Decimal Classification 623.82/4360951
Summary 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.
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Chapter 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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