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4 - Handicraft and Modern Industries

from Part I - 1800–1950

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2022

By
Linda Grove  and
Tōru Kubo
Edited by
Debin Ma  and
Richard von Glahn
Debin Ma
Affiliation:
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Richard von Glahn
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Summary

Industrialization in China has followed complicated paths over the last century and a half. China, like Russia, Germany, and Japan, followed in the footsteps of the pioneering industrial nations. For the first pioneering generation, industrialization developed indigenously, building on preindustrial handicraft traditions, inventing new technologies using water and steam power, and creating new corporate management systems. The new technologies of steamships, railroads, the telegraph, and the telephone transformed transportation and communication networks. Private entrepreneurs played central roles in the development of the new industrial systems, aided by protective tariffs and other state measures designed to promote industrial and commercial development.

Keywords

semi-industrializationlabor-intensive industrializationlate-developing countriesimport substitution industrialization/developmentexport-oriented industrialization/developmenttechnology transferoverseas Chinese entrepreneurssilk complex (sericulturereelingweaving)cotton industrywartime economyrural industrial districtsindigenous development
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The Cambridge Economic History of China , pp. 124 - 166
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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