新书：Railroads and the Transformation of China

本书信息

作者: Elisabeth Köll 
出版社: Harvard University Press
出版年: 2019-1-14
页数: 416
定价: $39.95 • £31.95 • €36.00

装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780674368170

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

26 photos, 9 maps, 6 tables

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.

作者简介

Elisabeth Köll is the William Payden Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.Elisabeth Köll pursued her undergraduate education at the University of Bonn in Germany and at Fudan University, Shanghai. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese Business History from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Based on prior teaching experience in the setting of a history department as well as a business school, Elisabeth’s course portfolio includes courses on Chinese business, economic, and social history as well as on doing business in contemporary China.Elisabeth's research focuses on the managerial, legal, and financial evolution of firms and entrepreneurship in China from the 19th century to the present. Her book From Cotton Mill to Business Enterprise: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China shows how concepts, definitions, and interpretations of property rights, corporate structures, and business practices in contemporary China have to be analyzed in terms of their historical, institutional, and cultural roots.

目录

List of Figures and Maps*

A Note on Measures, Romanization, and Translations

Introduction

I. Competing Interests and Railroad Construction

1. Technology and Semicolonial Ventures

2. Managing Transitions in the Early Republic

II. Railroads in the Market and Social Space

3. Moving Goods in the Marketplace

4. Moving People, Transmitting Ideas

III. The Making and the Unmaking of the State

5. Professionalizing and Politicizing the Railroads

6. Crisis Management

IV. On Track to Socialism

7. Postwar Reorganization and Expansion

8. Permanent Revolution and Continuous Reform

Conclusion: The Legacies of China’s Railroad System

Appendix A. Jin-Pu Railroad organization chart, ca. 1929

Appendix B. Revenue of major Chinese government railroad lines (thousand yuan per mile of line), 1915–1935

Appendix C. Freight transported by major Chinese government railroad lines (yuan per ton), 1915–1935

Appendix D. Number of passengers by ticket class, major Chinese government railroad lines, 1918–1935

Appendix E. Average miles per passenger journey by ticket class, major Chinese government railroad lines, 1918–1935

Appendix F. Freight designated for export (tons), shipped from Hankou to Guangzhou and onward to Hong Kong by train, October 18–December 31, 1937

Abbreviations

Glossary

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

* Figures and Maps

Map 0.1. Railroads in China, 1900

Map 1.1. Major railroads, 1912

Map 2.1. Major railroads, 1920

Map 4.1. Major railroads, 1928

Map 5.1. Major railroads, 1935

Map 6.1. Major railroads during the Japanese occupation, 1942

Map 7.1. Major railroads, 1957

Map 8.1. Major railroads, 1975

Map 8.2. Major railroads, 2010–2011

Fig. 1.1. Illustrations of exterior and interior of a steam locomotive in Gezhi huibian, 1877

Fig. 1.2. Map based on Chinese petition indicating gravesites in Cangzhou city, 1904

Fig. 1.3. Passengers crossing the Yellow River by boat, with the unfinished railroad bridge in the background, 1912

Fig. 1.4. Invitation to the opening of the Jin-Pu railroad bridge across the Yellow River, 1912

Fig. 2.1. Qianmen railroad station in Beijing, 1909

Fig. 2.2. Map of Ji’nan, capital of Shandong province, 1915

Fig. 2.3. Railroads and the foreign settlement (shangbu) in Ji’nan, 1915

Fig. 3.1. Treasury note for 8 percent Belgian Railway Equipment Loan, issued 1922

Fig. 3.2. Commodity jam at Hanzhuang station on the Jin-Pu line, 1912

Fig. 3.3. Railroad tracks at the Hotung yard in Tianjin, 1923

Fig. 3.4. Qufu railroad station on the Jin-Pu line, 1912

Fig. 3.5. Loading salt onto freight cars on the Jin-Pu line at Linhuaiguan, 1912

Fig. 3.6. Pukou station on the northern bank of the Yangzi River, 1912

Fig. 4.1. Traveling third class on the Peking-Suiyuan line, ca. 1925

Fig. 4.2. Construction site of the Jin-Pu line station in Ji’nan, with clock, 1912

Fig. 4.3. Food vendors and passengers at a station along the Peking-Hankou line, early 1930s

Fig. 4.4. Advertisement for Nankow Railway Hotel, 1917

Fig. 4.5. Descriptions of each station along the Jin-Pu line in Quanguo tielu lüxing zhinan (National railroad travel guide), 1921

Fig 5.1. Sculpture marking the previous resting place of Sun Yat-sen’s coffin at the former Pukou railroad station before its transfer across the river to Nanjing in 1929

Fig. 5.2. Nationalist propaganda train with Sun Yat-sen’s image, 1931

Fig. 6.1. Japanese armored rail car, 1938

Fig. 7.1. Chinese Nationalist troops retreat to the Yangzi River, 1949

Fig. 7.2. Refugee family at Pukou railroad station, 1949

Fig. 7.3. Signage for Shanghai Railroad Bureau subdivisions, displaying national railroad symbol, 2017

Fig. 8.1. Train attendants organize passengers to participate in the Criticize Confucius and Lin Biao Campaign on a train from Qiqihar to Beijing, 1974

Fig. 8.2. Propaganda poster “Learning from the Freight Yard at Dandong Station,” ca. 1974

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reviews

“Köll…has done a rare thing, and done it magnificently. She has written a book that will inform historians and economists of China, but also curious new readers, who will get a brainful of China’s development from the last emperors to the current president-for-life, Xi Jinping… She is adept at showing the impact of railways on all aspects of Chinese life.”—Jonathan Mirsky, Times Higher Education

“Köll is clearly a master of archival diplomacy, for she has over time found materials accessible to no other foreign scholar, resulting in one of the richest studies in the evolution, management, finances, and labor politics of any Chinese enterprise. It gives nuanced and sustained attention to the intersection of business and politics that remains to this day a critical factor for the success or failure of business in China.”—William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth

“The history of Chinese railroads is a topic so important, it is surprising we have had to wait so long for a book like this—the most comprehensive history of Chinese railways in either Chinese or English. Based on previously unused archives and interviews, Elisabeth Köll gives readers a picture of the building and development of what has become one of the largest railway networks in the world. At the same time, Köll provides a new perspective on a broad sweep of Chinese history from the final years of the Qing dynasty, through war and revolution in the twentieth century, and into China’s economic rise since the 1980s.”—Brett Sheehan, author of Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision