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

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

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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 229 pages
Publication date: 24 April 2022
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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 also explores how the Fuzhou Navy Yard’s shipbuilding and training program trained China’s first generation of shipbuilding workers and engineers.


Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781349928033
Edition number: 2022 ed.

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