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Description:: This dissertation investigates the muscle-powered transport technologies that pervaded the Japanese empire. It examines the production, adoption, evolution, and decline of draft animals, rickshaws, human-powered railways, and push-car railways in Japan and colonial Taiwan, 1850-1930. Invented in Tokyo in 1870, rickshaws proliferated across Asia and became a symbol of modern...
Subject:: History, Asian history, and Asian studies
Creator:: Li, Youjia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15712 and etdadmin_upload_843304

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