Editors:
- Presents a comparative and historical study of railway development in East Asia and between Asia and Europe
- Provides a long-perspective study on the formation of technological and managerial capabilities
- Explains the international transfer of technological knowledge of railways and the transformation of technologies adapted to each region and country
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Economic History (SEH)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This is the first book to examine the process of railway development in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China from historical and comparative perspectives. Moreover, it discusses and compares the East Asian experiences of railway development with cases in Germany, which was a mainstay of railway development in Europe.
After the opening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, the country achieved import substitution of locomotives in half a century. This book explores the social capability of Meiji Japan to overtake the advanced countries in railway technology. Parallel with the expansion of the Japanese empire, a large team of engineers constructed and operated the colonial government railways of Taiwan and Korea and the South Manchuria Railway. The book clearly outlines the education and training of these engineers. The management capabilities of the colonial railways and South Manchuria Railway were transferred to the postwar period, and such expertise supported the economic development of each country and region. These dramatic East Asian experiences of railway development are compared with European cases, mainly German railways.
Editors and Affiliations
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Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
Minoru Sawai
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Development of Railway Technology in East Asia in Comparative Perspective
Editors: Minoru Sawai
Series Title: Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4904-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4903-3Published: 24 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5261-4Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4904-0Published: 09 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2364-1797
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 153
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Japan