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Engineering Abroad

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As we have seen in the discussion of depictions of the Wusong and Tianjin Railways, pictorial “news” was not necessarily immediate in temporally or spatially. As a world-system, the Sinosphere in transition implicated spatial transformations and technological innovations beyond the fringes of the Qing empire. The world of tianxia 天下, or “all under heaven” in flux was characterized by simultaneous wonder and suspicion at the marvels of western science and engineering. Chinese media aggregated news from abroad, and adopted their visual idiom to venues like Dianshizhai.

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  1. Trains in Late Qing Print Culture Nathaniel Isaacson

Contents of this path:

  1. "A Train that Runs Under Water" 水底行車
  2. The Mersey Tunnel in Anglophone Media
  3. The Trottoir Roulant - 游觀台
  4. The Trottoir Roulant in Western Media
  5. The Trottoir Roulant in Chinese Media 游觀台