Chinese railway lives, 1912-1937 (2025)

An introduction to China's rail transport Part 1: history, present and future of China's railways

Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F-journal of Rail and Rapid Transit - PROC INST MECH ENG F-J RAIL R, 2002

In this paper an introduction is given to the history, current situation and future plans of China's railway industry. The history of China's railway is divided into four development phases: the phase in Imperial China, the phase in the R epublic of China and the phases before and after the economic rejuvenation of the People's R epublic of China. An introduction to the current situation and future plans includes the major projects under construction and development trends of China's railways. The environment of China's railways is also presented. This is the ®rst of two papers on the railway scene in China.

Introduction – New Insights and Perceptions on Railway History

Journal of History of Science and Technology, 2018

special issue: new insights and perceptions on railway history Throughout the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth century, railways played a vital role in the construction of nations, economic growth, technological development and the dominance of Western nations over sundry African, Asian, and Latin American territories. In more or less recent years, different authors have emphasised this agency in several of their classical works, reflecting in some way the representations and the feeling of technological sublime 1 that contemporaries of the first decades of the locomotive had. Hobsbawm called them the most spectacular symbol of the nineteenth century, 2 while Adas deemed them pioneers of civilisation, conquerors of time and space, unrivalled promoters of migrations, settlement and 1 That is, the pleasure of observing a moving machine, as a symbol of the triumph of technology and Man's ingenuity. Kasson considered the railway "the most common vehicle of the technological sublime."

Blood, Iron and Gold: How the railways transformed the world

Christian Wolmar, 2009

The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labor conditions, a global railroad network was built that forever changed the way people lived. From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Christian Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of the greatest global transport revolutions of our time, and celebrates the visionaries and laborers responsible for its creation.

Hungarian Witnesses of Infrastructure Construction in Manchuria (1877–1931) The Case of the Eastern Chinese Railway

This paper presents accounts of seven travelogues, written by Hungarian travellers and professionals who visited or worked in Manchuria between the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. So far these texts have not received wide scholarly attention because they are accessible only in Hungarian, although they con- tain unique first-hand observations of the construction of the Eastern Chinese Railway and many ethnographic notes. The author suggests that some narratives, especially those written by Hungarians who worked as engineering specialists, present very bal- anced analysis of the situation, because they belonged neither to the colonising project in China, nor to the colonised side, but rather were enthusiasts of technologi- cal modernisation. As a theoretical frame, the author attempts to apply notions and concepts developed by infrastructural and cybernetic anthropology.

Personnel Discipline and Industrial Relations on the Railways of Republican China

Australian Journal of Politics and History, 2001

The Chinese National Railways of Republican China (1912-37) had a personnel administration the equal of any of the major railway systems of the period. Railways require a sophisticated personnel bureaucracy to train, monitor and enforce codes of conduct which would ensure the safety of passengers, freight and the huge investment in rolling stock and fixed capital. Only the military had previously administrative structures approaching the modern railway companies, the first modern business to organise on such a scale large numbers of employees over vast geographic areas. In China the railway introduced not only a new transport technology but also played a major role in creating the new industrial working class through the regimes of work and discipline their administration created. Drawing on neglected railway personnel archives, this paper examines the work organisation and structures of discipline that governed the working day of Chinese railway employees.

An introduction to China's rail transport Part 2: urban rail transit systems, highway transport and the reform of China's railways

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 2002

In this paper, an introduction is provided to some of the components of China's transport system. The authors include the urban rail transit systems, the highway transport systems and its competitio n for China's railways and the reform of China's railway industry. This is the second of two papers on the situation of rail transport in China.

The Phenomenology of a Railway Expedition inChina: TheGate, theStation, theJourney and theArrival

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The peripheral situation of the stations has also been explained as part of a wider urban strategy based on a model of urban transformation: from the centric to the polycentric city. This strategy is difficult to trust if, as Pan Haixiao and Gao Ya suggest, the decision is not accompanied by proper planning of the connection between the different cores, The Phenomenology of a Railway Expedition in China: The Gate, the Station, th... Ambiances , Varia

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Spatiotemporal evolution of China’s railway network in the 20th century: An accessibility approach

Transportation Research Part A-policy and Practice, 2009

The interrelatedness of transportation development and economic growth has been a constant theme of geographic inquiries, particularly in economic and transportation geography. This paper analyzes the expansion of China's railway network, the evolution of its spatial accessibility, and the impacts on economic growth and urban systems over a time span of about one century . First, major historical events and policies and their effects on railway development in China are reviewed and grouped into four major eras: preliminary construction, network skeleton, corridor building, and deep intensification. All four eras followed a path of ''inland expansion." Second, spatial distribution of accessibility and its evolution are analyzed. The spatial structure of China's railway network is characterized by ''concentric rings" with its major axis in North China and the most accessible city gradually migrating from Tianjin to Zhengzhou. Finally, the study indicates that railway network expansion has significantly improved economic development and heavily influenced the formation of urban systems in China.

A literature review: A glance of railways

2018

Rail transport is the means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles merely run on a prepared, rail vehicles are also directionally guided by the tracks they run on. Rail is usually use for a fuel efficient transport mode, especially in comparison car, buses and trucks. It can contestably transport bulk of passenger and goods from one place to another place. In this literature paper discussed how many work fulfilled in railways department in Indian and foreign countries context.