Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890

Preface The Dilemmas of China's Technological Modernization China's Nineteenth-Century Modernizers: Policies and Personalities The Telegraph: Challenges of Communication Inconvenient Technology--Telegraphs Arrive at China's Shores, 1860-1870 The Telegraph Lines in Fujian, 1874-1877 The Genesis of the Chinese Telegraph Network, 1881-1889 Chinese Modernizers: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century Bibliography Index