1900 (dated)
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Description
A most intriguing discovery capturing the pivotal historical moment when China embraced the railroad, in the processing sacrificing much of its sovereignty to vast network of railroad concessions and foreign interests. This is a 1900 ferro-gallic transfer of Emilii Vasil evich Bretschneider s original manuscript map of China, accompanied by extensive manuscript annotation in the author s hand regarding the development of China s railroad system in the late 19th century.
Railroads of ChinaThe railroads came late to China. Although today China operates the world s largest railroad network, in the 19th century the Qing were slow to embrace the iron horse , the Emperor citing its annoying clamor and concerns over disrupting the