Forging the Nation Through Rails: Transportation Infrastructure and the Emergence of Chinese Nationalism

dc.contributor.advisorBuck, Danielen_US
dc.contributor.authorBrady, Dylanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-17T19:41:06Z
dc.date.available2014-06-17T19:41:06Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-17
dc.description.abstractWhile nationalism remains a vital element in the production of the political and economic landscape, it is often treated as a static container for other processes or neglected altogether. Rather, it must itself be treated as a process--a nationalizing project--emerging from a constellation of often contradictory social forces. One such process of nationalization is the development of large-scale transportation infrastructure, such as railroads. These projects produce both new spheres of circulation and new understandings critical to navigating these novel environments, which together radically transform the relation between people, government, and territory. In early twentieth century China, the complicated contest over railroad rights produced and was produced by a fractured political economic geography. Understandings of both identity and space remained fragmented, cohering only partially into a singular entity, thus demonstrating the intimate interrelation between state power, political identity, and territories both real and imagined.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/17904
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectNationalismen_US
dc.subjectPolitical economyen_US
dc.subjectRailroadsen_US
dc.titleForging the Nation Through Rails: Transportation Infrastructure and the Emergence of Chinese Nationalismen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Geographyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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