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Shellen Xiao Wu is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
- 经济史
- 环境史
- 近代史
- 海外中国研究
- 历史
- 煤炭
- 清史
- 计划
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrialization, this vast natural resource would prove integral to the struggle for political control of China.
Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism and the rallying point of Chinese resistance to Western encroachment. In the late nineteenth century both foreign powers and the Chinese viewed control over mineral resources as the key to modernization and industrialization. When the first China Geological Survey began work in the 1910s, conceptions of natural resources had already shifted, and the Qing state expanded its control over mining rights, setting the precedent for the subsequent Republican and People's Republic of China regimes.
In Empires of Coal, Shellen Xiao Wu argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world.
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从观念史的角度切入，探讨煤炭在近代中国精英阶层思维模式转型中的作用，强调中西方在十九世纪晚期重视煤炭在工业化中的重要位置
评分What is the turn after the material turn
评分Exciting book on the history of science and global competition among China and European nations. Comprehensive reassessment of Qing government’s effort to modernise the nation. Clearly defined targets of scholarly discussion.
评分Exciting book on the history of science and global competition among China and European nations. Comprehensive reassessment of Qing government’s effort to modernise the nation. Clearly defined targets of scholarly discussion.
评分有点差强人意。感觉主要讨论的是话语和观念上的转变。
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