Western Technology And China S Industrial Development

Author : Hsien-ch'un Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137598134

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Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development by Hsien-ch'un Wang Pdf

This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much emphasis on politics but ignores the techno-scientific and institutional requirements for launching such an endeavor. It examines how translations broke linguistic and conceptual barriers and brought new a understanding of heat to the Chinese readership. It also explores how the Fuzhou Navy Yard’s shipbuilding and training program trained China’s first generation of shipbuilding workers and engineers. It argues that conservatism against technology was not to blame for China’s slow development in steamship building. Rather, it was government officials’ failure to realize the scale of institutional and techno-scientific changes required in importing and disperse new knowledge and skills.

Author : Hsien-Ch'un Wang
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1137599030

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Western Technology and China's Industrial Development by Hsien-Ch'un Wang Pdf

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Discovering Steam Power in China, 1828-1865.- Chapter 3: Translating Heat: Tackling Old conceptions with new ideas, 1855-1868.- Chapter 4: More Translations, Limited Understanding: the Achievements and Constraints of Late Qing Translations of Heat, 1868-1895.- Chapter 5: Training Workers and Engineers: The Fuzhou Navy Yard, 1866-1895.- Chapter 6: To Build or To Buy? Financing the Fuzhou Navy Yard, 1866-1895.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Author : Hsien-ch'un Wang
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349928038

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Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development by Hsien-ch'un Wang Pdf

This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much emphasis on politics but ignores the techno-scientific and institutional requirements for launching such an endeavor. It examines how translations broke linguistic and conceptual barriers and brought new a understanding of heat to the Chinese readership. It also explores how the Fuzhou Navy Yard’s shipbuilding and training program trained China’s first generation of shipbuilding workers and engineers. It argues that conservatism against technology was not to blame for China’s slow development in steamship building. Rather, it was government officials’ failure to realize the scale of institutional and techno-scientific changes required in importing and disperse new knowledge and skills.

Author : Erik Baark,Andrew Jamison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349081172

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Technological Development in China, India and Japan by Erik Baark,Andrew Jamison Pdf

Author : Qunhui Huang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811036651

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China's Industrialization Process by Qunhui Huang Pdf

Based on long-term research, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses the industrialization process in China, analyzing the level, characteristics, achievements and experiences as well as the problems faced. It also provides answers to important questions related to economic development and the industrialization process in China, such as what level of industrialization China has achieved and whether China can become an industrialized country. Lastly, it offers an explanation of China's economic development from the perspective of industrialization.

Author : National Foreign Assessment Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : China
ISBN : PURD:32754077975948

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China, Post-Mao Search for Civilian Industrial Technology by National Foreign Assessment Center (U.S.) Pdf

Report on recent industrial policy trends encouraging modernization and technological change in the industrial sector and industrial development in China - discusses growing interest in technology transfer and the acquisition of Western machinery and knowhow, and examines obstacles related to the institutional framework, financial policy, economic doctrine, etc. Graphs, organigram, and statistical tables.

Author : Q. Y. Yu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313007538

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The Implementation of China's Science and Technology Policy by Q. Y. Yu Pdf

Yu gives Western readers a full view of China's science and technology policy, plus a historical perspective on the development of her science, technology, and industrial enterprises. A realistic, objective review that will help overcome tendencies to under- or overestimate China's technological and industrial strength and potential for the future, his book focuses on the transition of her scientific, technological, and industrial systems from a planned to a market economy. It identifies the latest science-technology policy readjustment in China and gives Westerners a way to assess the successes and failures of technological-industrial development attributable to policy causes. Yu describes the evolution of China's scientific and technological systems before and after her economic reforms. He covers changes in science-technology policy in their socioeconomic context, and highlights all major steps in her economic development that have spurred China's scientific-technological progress. Mr. Yu views these as a driving force for economic development, while the success of science-technology policy is determined by its effectiveness in implementing various economic activities. His book also provides in-depth coverage of changes in major industrial sectors, including agriculture, infrastructure, mainstay, high-tech, and township industries and non-governmental science-technology enterprises. The result is a unique opportunity to gain an authoritative, reliable understanding of China's scientific and technological activities, her industrial development, and the interaction between them.

Author : Bei Jin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811515064

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China's Path of Industrialization by Bei Jin Pdf

This book reviews China’s industrialization from the perspective of inclusiveness, and discusses the challenges arising from its industrialization process and how the Chinese people view and seek to overcome these challenges. By examining China’s industrialization in the context of the global economy, it reveals how China should be further integrated into and contribute to the great endeavor of worldwide industrialization and human development in the new era of economic globalization, allowing it to become a responsible stakeholder through its national rejuvenation for the benefit of the entire world.

Author : Yanqing Jiang,Jiewei Gu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811974588

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Technology and Industrial Transformation of China by Yanqing Jiang,Jiewei Gu Pdf

This book explores how China’s industrial transformation and development depend on technology and innovation and how considerations about issues associated with technology and innovation may affect China’s development strategies. Market-oriented reforms initiated four decades ago have constantly fueled a high speed of development in China. The country’s industrial structure has experienced rapid evolution. In the meantime, especially in the general context of globalization, the country has also opened to foreign trade and foreign direct investment, transforming itself from a virtually completely closed economy into a major trading nation and the largest developing country destination for foreign direct investment in the world. Technology is thought to be one of the key driving forces that shape the transformation of the Chinese economy. Owing to different speeds of innovation and technology diffusion, uneven development is one major issue in the process of China’s industrial transformation under new trends of globalization. Substantial disparities across different Chinese regions, e.g., the gaps in regional industrial development and those in incomes and living standards, have been one prominent feature of China and are (needless to say) closely related to different speeds of innovation and technology diffusion. The relationship between technology diffusion, innovation, and industrial development is an important yet complicated issue that deserves careful study. Considerations related to technology and innovation play a crucial role in leading and shaping China’s development strategies and routes. Sustainable development of China creates strong pressures for continuous transforming, upgrading, and restructuring of the Chinese economy, and in all of these processes, innovation and technology diffusion play a fundamental role. The book presents to the interested reader facts, thoughts, models, empirical results, and discussions that shed light on those issues.

Author : Mu Yang,Hong Yu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814324748

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China's Industrial Development in the 21st Century by Mu Yang,Hong Yu Pdf

Annotation This text provides a focused analysis of the main Chinese industrial sectors through case studies, data analysis and review of new state-initiated policies.

Author : Bill Dodson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118176351

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China Fast Forward by Bill Dodson Pdf

Will China Surpass the United States as an innovation nation? China is tirelessly working to overcome its technological deficiencies by driving R&D initiatives in government and business and adapting Western Internet platforms for domestic use. It is extending its technological reach through a major drive to rival India as a services outsourcing leader and projecting its high-tech brands into the companies and homes of other countries. But whether China succeeds will depend on how it handles such issues as demography, energy dependency, and resource limitations. The environmental challenges posed by China's vast manufacturing sector are well documented, but what isn't widely realized is that China is actually outstripping the West in all manner of green initiatives, renewable energy investments, research and development funding, and other areas essential to improving the health of the planet. However, omnipresent government intervention, environmental degradation, natural resource exhaustion, and other issues threaten to derail China’s rise to superpower status. As the country meets global challenges on a scale that few nations can match, China Fast Forward takes a look at what lies ahead and why China’s success is important to us all. In this book, Bill Dodson explores China's reincarnation from a closed, agrarian nation into a modern, high-tech superpower bent on literally cleaning up its act. Presents an on-the-ground survey and analysis of China's renewable and clean energy sector that identifies the kinds of projects and technologies Chinese enterprises and local governments are hungry for Includes a discussion on how successful Chinese companies are developing their brands to go head-to-head with the world’s best-known companies Discusses how central government conflicts of interest are actually foiling corporate and official drives to innovation across a range of sectors Taking a look inside China's march toward becoming a sustainable superpower through innovation, China Fast Forward presents a balance sheet of the country's technological and social progress on its path to becoming a world leader.

Author : Edward S. Steinfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199750733

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Playing Our Game by Edward S. Steinfeld Pdf

Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything, China's economic emergence is good for America. In this fascinating new book, Steinfeld asserts that China's growth is fortifying American commercial supremacy, because (as the title says) China is playing our game. By seeking to realize its dream of modernization by integrating itself into the Western economic order, China is playing by our rules, reinforcing the dominance of our companies and regulatory institutions. The impact of the outside world has been largely beneficial to China's development, but also enormously disruptive. China has in many ways handed over--outsourced--the remaking of its domestic economy and domestic institutions to foreign companies and foreign rule-making authorities. For Chinese companies now, participation in global production also means obedience to foreign rules. At the same time, even as these companies assemble products for export to the West, the most valuable components for those products come from the West. America's share of global manufacturing, by value, has actually increased since 1990. Within China, the R&D centers established by Western companies attract the country's best scientists and engineers, and harness that talent to global, rather than indigenous Chinese, innovation efforts. In many ways, both Chinese and American society are benefiting as a result. That said, the pressures on China are intense. China is modeling its economy on the United States, with vast consequences in a country with a small fraction of America's per-capita income and scarcely any social safety net. Walmartization is not something that Asian manufacturing power is doing to us; rather, it is how we are transforming China. From outsourcing to energy, Steinfeld overturns the conventional wisdom in this incisive and richly researched account.

Author : Jian Yuchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811550256

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Value Proposition by Jian Yuchi Pdf

The book discusses, elaborates on and answers questions to the following points: Firstly, what has changed through the information technology represented by software, Internet and big data? How do these changes effect the production relationships, the production mode and the industrial development model? Can China realize a "great-leap-forward" in economic development by promoting such a new Internet economy? Secondly, what is the format shown by the Internet economy? Is the Internet economy a market economy, or a planned economy, or is it an economic complex format which combines the planned economy and the market economy? What is the structure of the future economy? Which entities will compete with each other throughout the industries? What is the format of the future financial investment industry? Why does the Internet economy have a revolutionary impact on the economic base and the superstructure? Thirdly, let us look back on the traditional manufacturing industry. What on earth is the core value of the manufacturing industry? How is the core technology and core value of manufacturing realized? Why can it be that the industrial Internet will become a rare historical opportunity for China's manufacturing industry and economy to achieve a "great-leap-forward" development? Finally, in the big economic tide of Internet and big data, what are the future variables of China’s economy? What is the established economic policy of the United States for the global economy and industries? How should the economic variables of the United States be best dealt with, those that are determined as “US priority” and “the return of manufacturing industry” strongly promoted by the U.S. President Trump?

Author : Jiagui Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317482772

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Economic Development and Reform Deepening in China by Jiagui Chen Pdf

This book, together with Macro-control and Economic Development in China is a collection of papers written in recent years about maintaining economic growth, managing inflation, the relationship between growth and structural adjustment, control of price growth, maintaining stable economic development, and other relevant aspects of macro-control, economic development, and deepening reform. Chinese government adopts many of the recommendations put forward by the book.

Author : Loren Brandt,Thomas G. Rawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139470940

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China's Great Economic Transformation by Loren Brandt,Thomas G. Rawski Pdf

This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions. Their work exposes the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of China's great boom. Penetrating studies track the rise of Chinese capabilities in manufacturing and in research and development. The editors probe both achievements and weaknesses across many sectors, including China's fiscal, legal, and financial institutions. The book shows how an intricate minuet combining China's political system with sectorial development, globalization, resource transfers across geographic and economic space, and partial system reform delivered an astonishing and unprecedented growth spurt.