LEADER 04561nam 2200757 450 001 9910460164603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-9473-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804794732 035 $a(CKB)3710000000382824 035 $a(EBL)2002078 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001460787 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11833256 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460787 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11467886 035 $a(PQKB)10970924 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001041502 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2002078 035 $a(DE-B1597)564822 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804794732 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2002078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11036250 035 $a(OCoLC)905696208 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769680 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000382824 100 $a20150413h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmpires of coal $efueling China's entry into the modern world order, 1860-1920 /$fShellen Xiao Wu 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-9284-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Fueling Industrialization in the Age of Coal --$t2. Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Geology of Empire --$t3. Lost and Found in Translation: Geology, Mining, and the Search for Wealth and Power --$t4. Engineers as the Agents of Science and Empire, 1886?1914 --$t5. Nations, Empires, and Mining Rights, 1895?1911 --$t6. Geology in the Age of Imperialism, 1890?1923 --$t7. Epilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tSeries list 330 $aFrom 1868?1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890's, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrialization, this vast natural resource would prove integral to the struggle for political control of China. Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism and the rallying point of Chinese resistance to Western encroachment. In the late nineteenth century both foreign powers and the Chinese viewed control over mineral resources as the key to modernization and industrialization. When the first China Geological Survey began work in the 1910's, conceptions of natural resources had already shifted, and the Qing state expanded its control over mining rights, setting the precedent for the subsequent Republican and People's Republic of China regimes. In Empires of Coal, Shellen Xiao Wu argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world. 410 0$aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. 606 $aCoal mines and mining$zChina$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCoal mines and mining$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMines and mineral resources$zChina$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMines and mineral resources$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGeology, Economic$zChina$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGeology, Economic$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aChina$xHistory$y1861-1912 607 $aChina$xHistory$y1912-1928 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCoal mines and mining$xHistory 615 0$aCoal mines and mining$xHistory 615 0$aMines and mineral resources$xHistory 615 0$aMines and mineral resources$xHistory 615 0$aGeology, Economic$xHistory 615 0$aGeology, Economic$xHistory 676 $a338.2/724095109034 700 $aWu$b Shellen Xiao$f1980-$01051906 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460164603321 996 $aEmpires of coal$92482761 997 $aUNINA