Lightning Wires

Author: Erik Baark
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0313300119

Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890 (Contributions in Asian Studies)

Baark examines the transfer of telegraph technology to China in the late nineteenth century. Get Lightning Wires computer books for free.
He shows how the initial Chinese rejection of the telegraph as an inconvenient technology contributed to violent conflicts between foreigners and the Chinese, but that this resistence gradually gave way to an assimilation of the telegraph into Chinese society.The transfer and assimilation of advanced technology has been an important challenge for China's modernization for more than a century. Baark examines some of the dilemmas faced by Chinese modernizers of the yangwu (Western affairs) movement from the 1860s to the 1890s. Telegraph technology emerged in the West on the basis of scientific discoveries in electricity in the early nineteenth centu Check Lightning Wires our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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