Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological
                Modernization 1860-1890

Erik Baark

Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization 1860-1890

Erik Baark

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Abstract

This book examines the transfer of telegraph technology to China in the late nineteenth century. It shows how the initial Chinese rejection of the telegraph as an "inconvenient technology" contributed to violent conflicts between foreigners and the

Original language	English

Place of Publication	Westport, Conneticut
Publisher	ABC-CLIO/Greenwood
Number of pages	216
Publication status	Published - 1997

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