Western Technology And China's Industrial Development: Steamship Building In Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Discovering Steam Power in China, 1828-1865.- Chapter 3: Translating Heat: Tackling Old conceptions with new ideas, 1855-1868.- Chapter 4: More Translations, Limited Understanding: the Achievements and Constraints of Late Qing Translations of Heat, 1868-1895.- Chapter 5: Training Workers and Engineers: The Fuzhou Navy Yard, 1866-1895.- Chapter 6: To Build or To Buy? Financing the Fuzhou Navy Yard, 1866-1895.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

• | Author: Hsien-Ch'un Wang
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: May 24, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137599030
• | ISBN-13: 9781137599032