Meeting Technology's Advance

Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age

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James Z. Gao

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Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies

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In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating significant social change. His principal concern is with indigenous people whose efforts to meet this technological advance has been neglected or underestimated. Gao shows how different cultural traditions, political situations, and individual interests create an attractive variety of local responses to the challenges and opportunities afforded by technology. He not only describes the final consequences of railway development, but emphasizes the dynamic process by which indigenous people first derived, then gradually lost, most of the gains from modern transport advances. In addition, Gao explores a number of permanent impacts of railways on the two areas, including demographic and structural changes, and divisions of race and class. An intriguing study for researchers and students of imperialism, and Chinese and African history.

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JAMES ZHENG GAO is Assistant Professor of History at Christopher Newport University. Previously he was Assistant Professor at Peking University and a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, Oxford University, and the University of Zimbabwe.

Release date Australia

October 30th, 1997

Author

James Z. Gao

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Interest Age

From 7 to 17 years

Pages

240

Series

Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780313300950

Product ID

7019791

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