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Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890 - Contributions in Asian Studies Erik Baark
Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890 - Contributions in Asian Studies
Erik Baark
This study focuses on the dilemmas faced by Chinese modernizers of the yangwu movement. It examines the tensions between the Chinese and the foreign companies seeking to extend telegraph technology to East Asian cities and how the domestic network was shaped by social and cultural forces.
240 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 18, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780313300110 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 17 mm · 521 g |
| Language | English |
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