Railroads and the Transformation of China

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Railroads and the Transformation of China

Author	: Elisabeth Köll
File Size	: 48,5 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 14 January 2019
ISBN	: 9780674368170
Pages	: 417 pages

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To convey modern China’s history and the forces driving its economic success, rail has no equal. From warlordism to Cultural Revolution, railroads suffered the country’s ills but persisted because they were exemplary institutions. Elisabeth Köll shows why they remain essential to the PRC’s technocratic economic model for China’s future.

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