China's Great Train - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Great Train write by Abrahm Lustgarten. This book was released on 2009-05-12. China's Great Train available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lustgarten's book is a timely and provocative account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and the nation's obsession to transform its land and its people.
Railroads and the Transformation of China
Railroads and the Transformation of China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railroads and the Transformation of China write by Elisabeth Köll. This book was released on 2019-01-14. Railroads and the Transformation of China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Riding the Iron Rooster
Riding the Iron Rooster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Riding the Iron Rooster write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2006-12-08. Riding the Iron Rooster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, infectiously curious author “is in top form as he describes the barren deserts of Mongolia and Xinjiang, the ice forests of Manchuria and the dry hills of Tibet. He captures their otherworldly, haunting appearances perfectly. He is also right on target when he talks about the ugliness of China's poorly planned, hastily built cities” (Mark Salzman, The New York Times). Theroux hops aboard a train as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From sweeping and desolate natural landscapes to the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.
Riding the Iron Rooster
Riding the Iron Rooster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Riding the Iron Rooster write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2006. Riding the Iron Rooster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: New York: Putnam's, c1988.
Night Train to Turkistan
Night Train to Turkistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Night Train to Turkistan write by Stuart Stevens. This book was released on 1988. Night Train to Turkistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical ones. First serial to Esquire.
