... Materials Center, Inc. has reprinted all three of these works, plus other valuable records and recollections of "Ilha Formosa." HARRY J. LAMLEY University of Hawaii China's Quest for Railway Autonomy, 1904 1911: A Study of the Chinese Railway-Rights Recovery Movement. By EN-HAN LEE. Singapore: Singapore...

...Bruce A. Elleman Abstract F ollowing the october revolution , the Soviet Union regained majority control over the strategically located Chinese Eastern Railway, which ran through Manchuria, by signing two previously unpublished secret agreements: the first with the Beijing government on May 31...

...Norton S. Ginsburg Abstract The three maps accompanying this brief text are meant to be the body of the article. They tell a major story in themselves. Railway development in Manchuria is shown graphically to have been rapid and extensive over a period of less than half a century. The rate...

...Daniel Thorner Abstract India alone of the countries with great railway networks is unindustrialized. In the other leading railway powers—particularly the United States, Russia, Germany, though to a lesser extent in sparsely settled areas like Canada and Australia—the railway was the veritable...

...Nobutaka Ike Abstract A glance At the railway map of Japan will show that the country is criss-crossed by a network of railroads. Trunk lines run along almost the entire coast line of both Honshu and Kyushu. These and several other main lines running north and south are connected by numerous cross...

...E-tu Zen Sun Abstract After three-quarters of a century of fluctuating efforts, the development of railways in China remains an unfinished task today. In contrast to industrially more advanced countries, which had built most of their existing lines by the turn of the present century, railway...

...E-tu Zen Sun Abstract Among the railway concessions obtained by Britain from the Chinese government during the battle for concessions in 1898 was one covering a line that would branch off from the Shanghai-Nanking Railway (another British concession) at Soochow, run southwestward to Hangchow...

...Ramon H. Myers Chung-kuo tsao-ch'i te t'ieh-lu ching-ying (Early Railway Management in China) . By Li Kuo-Ch'i . Taiwan : Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , May 1961 . Map. $0.80 (paper, $0.50) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 467...

...Ramon H. Myers Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 Gendai Ajia kenkyū seiritsu shiron, Mantetsu Chōsabu, Tōa Kenkyūjo, IPR no kenkyū [Essays on the history of modern Asian research: the South Manchurian Railway Company's Research Department, the East Asian...

...John H. Boyle Life Along the South Manchurian Railway: The Memoirs of ltō Takeō . By Itō Takeo translated by Joshua A. Fogel . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1988 . xxxii, 241 pp. $29.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 136 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Michael Adas Railway Imperialism . Edited by Clarence B. Davis and Kenneth E. Wilburn . New York, Westport, Conn., London : Greenword Press , 1991 . xix 225 pp. $42.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 118 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES as his...

...Grant K. Goodman River Kwai Railroad: The Story of the Burma-Siam Railroad . By Clifford Kinvig . London : Brassey's Press , 1992 . 226 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 789 government-owned Manila Railroad...

...Ralph W. Huenemann Chung-kuo chin-tai t'ieh-lu shih-ye kuan-li ti yen-chiu [Railroads in modern China: political aspects of railroad administration, 1876–1937] . By Chang Jui-Te . Taipei : Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , Monograph series No. 63, 1991 . $13.00 (cloth...

...Kevin Y. Kim Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad . By Manu Karuka . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2019 . 297 pp. ISBN: 9780520296640 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

... of the Peking-Hankow Railroad] . By Ho Hon-wai . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 1979 . 231 pp. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 370 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in overgeneralizations. Moreover, much of the material is available in other books and articles...

...Thomas C. Owen Road to Power: The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850–1917 . By Steven G. Marks . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1991 . xxi, 240 pp. $31.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 130 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... of China's current infrastructure projects to pre–Xi Jinping periods, they find the historical referents and precursors to China's current railway constructions instead in the “long gestating” “grand visions” of connectivity held by earlier major powers (notably, Britain and France during the late nineteenth...

...Moses Abramovitz Abstract The problem proposed by the editor of the Quarterly to the members of this symposium is to consider the varying patterns of railway development in three Far Eastern countries. It is a particularly challenging problem because the influential role which railroads have played...

.... PRITCHARD University of Chicago Chinese Railways and British Interests, 1898-1911. By E-TU ZEN SUN. New York: Columbia University, King's Crown Press, 1954. viii, 230. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $4.00. The author of this study recognizes that railway enterprises in China can properly be examined from...

... of the modern state. At its core, Köll's book is a powerful work of institutional history that shines new light on the development of the ultimate statist project—the railroad. But one surprising feature of the work is just how closely it tacks to Chinese state narratives. While institutional history...