04527nam 2200745 450 991079718770332120230807214234.00-8047-9473-110.1515/9780804794732(CKB)3710000000382824(EBL)2002078(SSID)ssj0001460787(PQKBManifestationID)11833256(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460787(PQKBWorkID)11467886(PQKB)10970924(StDuBDS)EDZ0001041502(MiAaPQ)EBC2002078(DE-B1597)564822(DE-B1597)9780804794732(Au-PeEL)EBL2002078(CaPaEBR)ebr11036250(OCoLC)905696208(OCoLC)1178769680(EXLCZ)99371000000038282420150413h20152015 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrEmpires of coal fueling China's entry into the modern world order, 1860-1920 /Shellen Xiao WuStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (281 p.)Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-9284-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Fueling Industrialization in the Age of Coal --2. Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Geology of Empire --3. Lost and Found in Translation: Geology, Mining, and the Search for Wealth and Power --4. Engineers as the Agents of Science and Empire, 1886–1914 --5. Nations, Empires, and Mining Rights, 1895–1911 --6. Geology in the Age of Imperialism, 1890–1923 --7. Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --Index --Series listFrom 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890's, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrialization, this vast natural resource would prove integral to the struggle for political control of China. Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism and the rallying point of Chinese resistance to Western encroachment. In the late nineteenth century both foreign powers and the Chinese viewed control over mineral resources as the key to modernization and industrialization. When the first China Geological Survey began work in the 1910's, conceptions of natural resources had already shifted, and the Qing state expanded its control over mining rights, setting the precedent for the subsequent Republican and People's Republic of China regimes. In Empires of Coal, Shellen Xiao Wu argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world.Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.Coal mines and miningChinaHistory19th centuryCoal mines and miningChinaHistory20th centuryMines and mineral resourcesChinaHistory19th centuryMines and mineral resourcesChinaHistory20th centuryGeology, EconomicChinaHistory19th centuryGeology, EconomicChinaHistory20th centuryChinaHistory1861-1912ChinaHistory1912-1928Coal mines and miningHistoryCoal mines and miningHistoryMines and mineral resourcesHistoryMines and mineral resourcesHistoryGeology, EconomicHistoryGeology, EconomicHistory338.2/724095109034Wu Shellen Xiao1980-1479145MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797187703321Empires of coal3695105UNINA