ISBN:
9781000242379
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4/83/0951
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Technology-China
;
Technology and state-China..
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Sources of Data -- A Note on Transliteration -- Notes -- Part I Technological Development in Context -- 2. Technology and Society in Traditional China -- Notes -- 3. The Evolution of Technological Policy in the People's Republic -- Recovery and the First Five-Year Plan, 1949-1957 -- The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 -- Retrenchment, 1961-1965 -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath, 1966-1976 -- The Post-Mao Period, 1976 to the Present -- Notes -- 4. Ideological Orientations and Policy Issues -- Technology and Maoist Ideology -- Imported Technologies and the Search for Self-Reliance -- Walking on Two Legs": Policies Toward Rural Industries -- The Red-Expert Dilemma -- Education and Manpower Policies -- Ideology in Retreat -- Notes -- 5. Organizational Patterns and Technological Change -- Centralization and Decentralization Under Mao -- The Administration of Technological Development: Central Agencies -- Enterprise Autonomy and Technological Development -- Administrative Structure and Economic Dualism -- Notes -- Part II The Process of Technological Development: Four Sectoral Studies -- 6. Agricultural Technologies -- Irrigation and Water Control -- Mechanization -- Seed Varieties -- Fertilizers -- Insecticides and Plant Protection -- Cultivation Techniques -- The Organization of Agrotechnical Development -- Notes -- 7. Energy Technologies -- Coal -- Petroleum -- Electricity Generation and Transmission -- Other Energy Sources -- Continuing Problems of Energy Development -- Notes -- 8. Surface Transportation Technologies -- Railroads -- Roads and Trucks -- Notes -- 9. Medical Technologies -- A Brief Appraisal of Medical Care in China -- Health Care Technologies for the Countryside -- Schistosomiasis Control.
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