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    Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047898849
    Format: x, 399 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    ISBN: 9780226721996
    Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian institute, Columbia University
    Content: Carbon technocracy -- Vertical natures -- Technological enterprise -- Fueling anxieties -- Imperial extraction -- Nationalist reconstruction -- Socialist industrialization -- Exhausted limits
    Content: "Carbon Technocracy illustrates how the rise of the fossil fuel economy in East Asia was mutually shaped by the emergence of technocratic governance in China and Japan by looking closely at the Fushun colliery in Manchuria. The colliery changed hands between the Imperial Japanese, Nationalist Chinese, and Communist Chinese governments over the first half of the twentieth century and once boasted the largest coal mining operations in East Asia. Seow examines how the Japanese and Chinese regimes became committed to large-scale, state-led energy extraction efforts even as concerns swirled over economic growth, resource scarcity, and national autarky. Pivotal to this process was the development and employment of technologies of extraction: from methods such as open-pit mining and shale oil distillation, which enabled the extraction of carbon energy, to mechanisms such as finger printing and calorie counting, which made possible a more efficient extraction of the human labor undergirding the entire enterprise. For all their differences, the regimes shared technocratic visions of industrial development based on extensive fossil fuel production and use. The reliance on carbon energy to sustain the entire system engendered a widespread tension that persists today, a tension between the fear of scarcity and a faith in finding near limitless supply, often thanks to science and technology"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebk. ISBN 978-0-226-81260-1
    Language: English
    Subjects: General works
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    Keywords: China ; Japan ; Kohlenbergbau ; Energiepolitik ; Arbeiter ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Geschichte ; Fushun ; Kohlenbergbau ; Tagebau ; Geschichte 1900-
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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Chicago :The University of Chicago Press,
    UID:
    almahu_9949597355202882
    Format: 1 online resource (399 pages) : , illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
    ISBN: 9780226812601
    Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Content: A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia's largest coal mine. The coal-mining town of Fushun in China's Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early 20th century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing decades, as various Chinese and Japanese states endeavoured to unearth Fushun's purportedly 'inexhaustible' carbon resources. Today, the depleted mine that remains is a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fuelled future and the technologies mobilised in attempts to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality. In this book, Victor Seow uses the remarkable story of the Fushun colliery to chart how the fossil fuel economy emerged in tandem with the rise of the modern technocratic state.
    Note: Also issued in print: 2022.
    Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780226721996
    Language: English
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