Appendix A: Jin-Pu Railroad organization chart, ca. 1929

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures and Maps ix
4. A Note on Measures, Romanization, and Translations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Competing Interests and Railroad Construction
7. 1. Technology and Semicolonial Ventures 19
8. 2. Managing Transitions in the Early Republic 53
9. II. Railroads in the Market and Social Space
10. 3. Moving Goods in the Marketplace 91
11. 4. Moving People, Transmitting Ideas 128
12. III. The Making and the Unmaking of the State
13. 5. Professionalizing and Politicizing the Railroads 165
14. 6. Crisis Management 193
15. IV. On Track to Socialism
16. 7. Postwar Reorganization and Expansion 223
17. 8. Permanent Revolution and Continuous Reform 254
18. Conclusion: The Legacies of China’s Railroad System 290
19. Appendix A: Jin-Pu Railroad organization chart, ca. 1929 301
20. Appendix B: Revenue of major Chinese government railroad lines (thousand yuan per mile of line), 1915–1935 305
21. Appendix C: Freight transported by major Chinese government railroad lines (yuan per ton), 1915–1935 309
22. Appendix D: Number of passengers by ticket class, major Chinese government railroad lines, 1918–1935 313
23. Appendix E: Average miles per passenger journey by ticket class, major Chinese government railroad lines, 1918–1935 317
24. Appendix F: Freight designated for export (tons), shipped from Hankou to Guangzhou and onward to Hong Kong by train, October 18–December 31, 1937 321
25. Abbreviations 323
26. Glossary 325
27. Notes 329
28. Acknowledgments 385
29. Index 389