{"product_id":"recharging-china-in-war-and-revolution-1882-1955-paperback-softback-9781501758959","title":"Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501758959","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRecharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYing Jia Tan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501758959\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 October 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e294 pages, 5 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 3 maps - 5 Halftones, black and white - 3 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTan's book [is] both timely and an essential new entry in the historiography on modern China.\u003c\/p\u003e (Asian Studies) \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRecharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955\u003c\/i\u003e, Ying Jia Tan offers a timely account of China's energy history, detailing its electrical development from the late Qing to the early Mao periods.This book makes an important contribution to the larger scholarship on energy history by explicating how electricity and state power were entwined and evolved in the Chinese experience.\u003c\/p\u003e (Technology and Culture)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTan traces this history from the textile-factory power shortages of the late Qing, through the struggle over China's electrical industries during its civil war, to the 1937 Japanese invasion that robbed China of 97 percent of its generative capacity. Along the way, he demonstrates that power industries became an integral part of the nation's military-industrial complex, showing how competing regimes asserted economic sovereignty through the nationalization of electricity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on a wide range of published records, engineering reports, and archival collections in China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States, \u003ci\u003eRecharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955\u003c\/i\u003e argues that, even in times of peace, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency and longevity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu\/cornell-open) and other repositories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Forging Resilience\u003cbr\u003e 1. Spinning the Threads of Discontent\u003cbr\u003e 2. Defending the Public Good\u003cbr\u003e 3. Unleashing Fire and Fury\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dawning of the Copper Age\u003cbr\u003e 5. Turning the Tide\u003cbr\u003e 6. Waging Electrical Warfare\u003cbr\u003e 7. Manufacturing Technocracy\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Hauntings from Past Energy Transitions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607805751576,"sku":"9781501758959","price":17.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/recharging-china-in-war-and-revolution-1882-1955-paperback-softback-9781501758959","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}