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Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development: Steamship Building in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895 (2022)

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Wang, Hsien-Chun (Author)

Springer Nature
Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 238
Language: English
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Development of technology; change in technology Ships and shipbuilding Science and technology studies (STS) Industrialization Steam engines; steam turbines Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence 19th century China

This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much emphasis on politics but ignores the techno-scientific and institutional requirements for launching such an endeavor. It examines how translations broke linguistic and conceptual barriers and brought new a understanding of heat to the Chinese readership. It also explores how the Fuzhou Navy Yard’s shipbuilding and training program trained China’s first generation of shipbuilding workers and engineers. It argues that conservatism against technology was not to blame for China’s slow development in steamship building. Rather, it was government officials’ failure to realize the scale of institutional and techno-scientific changes required in importing and disperse new knowledge and skills.

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Authors & Contributors
Brill, Robert H.
Davids, C. A.
Deng, Kent G.
Dudley, Leonard
Gan, Fuxi
Lean, Eugenia
Journals
American Historical Review
Antiquity
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
History of Technology
Publishers
Brill
Columbia University
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
MIT Press
World Scientific
Renaissance Books
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Development of technology; change in technology
Industrialization
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Steam engines; steam turbines
Ships and shipbuilding
People
Richthofen, Ferdinand von
Sun, Yat-sen
Zheng, He
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Ancient
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Early modern
Places
China
Europe
Japan
Denmark
India
Iran
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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