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Harvard Studies in Business History • 52 Published with the support of the Harvard Business School edited by Walter A. Friedman Lecturer of Business Administration Director, Business History Initiative and Geoffrey Jones Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Faculty Chair, Business History Initiative Harvard Business School RailRoads and the tRansfoRmation of China ElisabEth Köll = Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2019 Copyright © 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Jacket design: Tim Jones Jacket art: Illustrations of exterior and interior of a steam locomotive in Gezhi huibian, 1877 9780674916425 (EPUB) 9780674916432 (MOBI) 9780674916418 (PDF) The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: Köll, Elisabeth, 1965– author. Title: Railroads and the transformation of China / Elisabeth Köll. Other titles: Harvard studies in business history ; 52. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2019. | Series: Harvard studies in business history ; 52 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018014456 | ISBN 9780674368170 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Railroads— China— History. | Railroads and state— China— History. | Infrastructure (Economics)— China. Classification: LCC HE3288 .K65 2019 | DDC 385.0951— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2018014456 In memoriam Michael Quirin Contents List of Figures and Maps ix A Note on Mea sures, Romanization, and Translations xi Introduction 1 I • Competing Interests and Railroad Construction 1. Technology and Semicolonial Ventures 19 2. Managing Transitions in the Early Republic 53 II • Railroads in the Market and Social Space 3. Moving Goods in the Marketplace 91 4. Moving People, Transmitting Ideas 128 III • The Making and the Unmaking of the State 5. Professionalizing and Politicizing the Railroads 165 6. C risis Management 193 IV • On Track to Socialism 7. Postwar Reor ga ni za tion and Expansion 223 8. Permanent Revolution and Continuous Reform 254
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