Summary in Chinese field only.
全书概述了自1865年中国出现最早的展览铁路,至1949年间中国铁路婉转曲折的发展历程,诠释了铁路体制演变过程中的基本特征和深层内涵;共分12章38节,并附录有中国铁路体制演变大事年表和主要历史时期中国铁路体制状态示意图.

• About the Editors and Contributors-- Acknowledgments-- Preface, Stephen Kotkin-- Maps-- Introduction, Bruce A. Elleman, Elisabeth Koll, and Y. Tak Matsusaka-- Part I. Competing Railway Imperialisms--
• 1. The Chinese Eastern Railway: From the First Sino-Japanese War until the Russo-Japanese War, S.C.M. Paine--
• 2. Japan's South Manchuria Railway Company in Northeast China, 1906-1934, Y. Tak Matsusaka--
• 3. Sino-Soviet Tensions and Soviet Administrative Control over the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1917-25, Bruce A. Elleman--
• 4. Railway as Political Catalyst: The Chinese Eastern Railway and the 1929 Sino-Soviet Conflict, Felix Patrikeeff-- Part II. Competing Railway Nationalisms--
• 5. Technology Transfer in Modern China: The Case of Railway Enterprises in Central China and Manchuria, Chang Jui-te--
• 6. Chinese Railroads, Local Society, and Foreign Presence: The Tianjin-Pukou Line in pre-1949 Shandong, Elisabeth Koll--
• 7. Railways in Communist Strategy and Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1948, Harold M. Tanner--
• 8. Return of the Chinese Changchun Railway to China by the USSR, Zhang Shengfa-- Epilogue: Rivers of Steel: Manchuria's Railways as a Natural Extension of the Sea Lines of Communication, Bruce A. Elleman-- Selected Bibliography-- Index.
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The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria. A spur line from the Manchurian city of Harbin led south to ice-free Port Arthur. Control of these two rail lines gave Imperial Russia military, economic, and political advantages that excited rivalry on the part of Japan and unease on the part of weak and divided China. Meanwhile, the effort to defend and retain that strategic hold against rising Japanese power strained distant Moscow. Control of the Manchurian railways was contested in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5; Japan's 1931 invasion and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo; the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in Asia; and, the Chinese civil war that culminated in the Communist victory over the Nationalists. Today, the railways are critical to plans for development of China's sparsely populated interior. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore this fascinating history.
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$a 抗战时期中国铁路遭受了迄今为止规模最大,程度最深的人口伤亡和财产损失.作为两次淞沪战役时期最重要,最快捷的交通通道,京沪,沪杭甬两条铁路承担起大量军民的运输任务,但由于日军空袭,地面战事,运营停止以及双方破拆而遭受了严重的直接与间接损失以及大量人员伤亡,其财产损失合计达9700余万元,员工死伤约100人,同时造成大量军民乘客伤亡.战争不仅对铁路本身造成了严重的破坏,对上海城市空间的演变也带来了深远的影响.民国上海市政当局为改善铁路与城市的关系布局而推出多项铁路改造规划,但这一历史契机被两次淞沪战役彻底葬送,而战争又导致多座火车站和铁路路线被,对外交通受到了较大限制.建国后城市空间迅速拓展,但铁路运输布局没有根本性的改变,因此'蜂腰'问题日益突出,文革前后在铁路外侧新建居住区的行为则进一步加剧了铁路路线切割城市空间的问题.这一局面最终通过建设新客站和拆除沪杭铁路内环线,部分淞沪铁路地面路段等方法才得以化解.总之,受战争及其后续因素的影响,上海城市空间并未沿铁路路线方向延伸,拓展,铁路未能成为城市空间的发展轴,反而造成了较强的负面影响并一直延续到20世纪末.

• Now is the time
• A sometime Buddhist
• A bigger stage
• Stray dogs
• Moving heaven and earth
• Free Tibet
• Under a Han sun
• The gambler
• The race to reach Lhasa
• Paradise rebuilt
• When the Wang family came to town
• Hu's west.

When the 'sky train' to Tibet opened in 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan first envisioned by Mao Zedong. As China grew into an economic power, the railway had become an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final maneuver in strengthening the country's grip over this last frontier. In "China's Great Train", Abrahm Lustgarten, an investigative reporter with ProPublica, explores the lives of the Chinese and Tibetans swept up in the project. He follows Chinese engineer Zhang Luxin as he makes the train's route over the treacherous mountains and permafrost possible (for now), and struggling Tibetan shopkeeper Renzin, who is caught in a boomtown that favours the Han Chinese. As the railway - the highest and steepest in the world - extends to Lhasa, their lives and communities fundamentally change, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Lustgarten offers an absorbing and provocative first hand account of the promise and costs of the Chinese boom.
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In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final manoeuvre in strengthening China's grip over this remote and often mystical frontier, which promised rich resources and geographic supremacy over South Asia.Through the lives of the Chinese and Tibetans swept up in the project, "Fortune" magazine writer Abrahm Lustgarten explores the "Wild West" atmosphere of the Chinese economy today. He follows innovative Chinese engineer Zhang Luxin as he makes the train's route over the treacherous mountains and permafrost possible (for now), and the tenacious Tibetan shopkeeper Rinzen, who struggles to hold on to his business in a boomtown that increasingly favours the Han Chinese. As the railway - the highest and steepest in the world - extends to Lhasa, and China's "Go West" campaign delivers waves of rural poor eager to make their fortunes, their lives and communities fundamentally change, sometimes for good, sometimes not.
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• Vorwort / Von Dr. Thomas Wagner
• Otto Meister oder die Faszination des Fernen Ostens : zur Biografie eines Wagemutigen / Von Ursula Meister-Cardi
• Zu den Texten von Otto Meister / Von Paul Hugger
• "Eine der interessantesten Bahnen Ostasiens" : Bericht über den Bau der Yunnan Railway / Von Otto Meister
• "Die Kulis starben auch schon wie die Fliegen" : Briefe des Bahningenieurs Otto Meister aus Südchina
• "Die ganze Nacht hörte das Geknatter nicht auf" : mit dem Schiff auf dem Jangtsekiang während der Bürgerkriegswirren 1929 / Von Otto Meister.

$a 本书主要选取清末和民国初年为考察时段, 探讨铁路交通与近代中国社会发展的辩证关系, 并选取沪宁铁路进行个案考察, 进而探究近代中国社会转型背景下的一种现代化 交通工具与区域社会发展的互动关系, 揭示出铁路交通与人类社会发展的内在规律.