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Engineering Trouble: US–Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905–1945
In the early twentieth century, the first large batch of Chinese civil engineers had graduated from the USA, and together with their American senior colleagues returned to China. They were enthusiastic about reconstructing the young republic by building new railways, highways, and canals, but what the engineers experienced in China, including mismanaged railways, useless highways, and silted canals, did not always meet their expectations and ideals. In this book, Thorben Pelzer makes the stories of these Chinese and American engineers come to life through exploring previously unpublished letters, rare images, maps, and a rich biographical dataset. He argues that the experiences of these engineers include a myriad of contradictions, disillusionment, and discontent, keeping the engineering profession in a constant flux of searching for its meaning and its place in Republican China.
Engineering Trouble: Us-Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905-1945
Using newly analyzed sources and database analysis, this book tells the stories of the personal friendships and professional failures of Chinese and American engineers in Republican China.
Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America
Global warming interacts in multiple ways with ecological and social systems in Northern America. While the US and Canada belong to the world’s largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases, the Arctic north of the continent as well as the Deep South are already affected by a changing climate. In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, educational studies, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and sociology explore society–nature interactions in – culturally as well as ecologically – one of the most diverse regions of the world. Contributors include: Omer Aijazi, Roland Benedikter, Maxwell T. Boykoff, Eugene Cordero, Martin David, Demetrius Eudell, Michael K. Goodman, Frederic Hanusch, Naotaka Hayashi, Jürgen Heinrichs, Grit Martinez, Antonia Mehnert, Angela G. Mertig, Michael J. Paolisso, Eleonora Rohland, Karin Schürmann, Bernd Sommer, Kenneth M. Sylvester, Anne Marie Todd, Richard Tucker, and Sam White.
Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia
Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia offers a fascinating picture of the intricacies of regional and cross-regional networks and the complexity of Buddhist identities emerging across Asia.
Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe
Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe is an account of Europe’s share in the making of global warming, which considers the past and future of climate-society interactions.
Environmental Change and African Societies
The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.
Norbert Elias in Troubled Times
This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias’s sociology. It sheds light on both the contemporary world and some of Elias’s most controversial concepts. Through examination of the ‘current affairs’, political and social contemporary changes, the authors in this collection present new and challenging ways of understanding these social processes and figurations. Ultimately, the objective of the book is to embrace and utilise some of the more polemical aspects of Elias’s legacy, such as the exploration of decivilizing processes, decivilizing spurts, and dys-civilization. It investigates to what extent Elias’s sociological analyses are still applicable in our studies of the developments that mark our troubled times. It does so through both global and local lenses, theoretically and empirically, and above all, by connecting past, present, and possible futures of all human societies.
Einstieg in die Chinastudien
Dieses Buch führt in die Chinastudien ein und richtet sich an Studierende, die noch kein wissenschaftliches oder fachspezifisches Vorwissen besitzen, sowie an Außenstehende, die einen Zugang zur Chinaforschung gewinnen möchten. Die Sinologie greift auf die Methoden und Arbeitsweisen einer Vielzahl von Disziplinen zurück: Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Ethnologie und Soziologie, Religionswissenschaften, Geschichts- und Sprachwissenschaften sind hierfür nur einige Beispiele. Sinologische Lehrstühle sind dagegen meist auf ausgewählte Disziplinen spezialisiert und vermitteln vorwiegend die Modelle und Methode der ihnen naheliegenden Expertisen. Für eine erste Orientierung gibt d...
Einstieg in die Chinastudien
Dieses Buch führt in die Chinastudien ein und richtet sich an Studierende, die noch kein wissenschaftliches oder fachspezifisches Vorwissen besitzen, sowie an Außenstehende, die einen Zugang zur Chinaforschung gewinnen möchten. Die Sinologie greift auf die Methoden und Arbeitsweisen einer Vielzahl von Disziplinen zurück: Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Ethnologie und Soziologie, Religionswissenschaften, Geschichts- und Sprachwissenschaften sind hierfür nur einige Beispiele. Sinologische Lehrstühle sind dagegen meist auf ausgewählte Disziplinen spezialisiert und vermitteln vorwiegend die Modelle und Methode der ihnen naheliegenden Expertisen. Für eine erste Orientierung gibt d...
