Description: "The formative years of China's electrical industries between 1882 and 1955 overlapped with a period of incessant warfare and revolutionary upheaval. The electrification of textile manufacturing, wartime electrical infrastructure build-up, and the battles for control over electrical power production and consumption, reveal the inter-connectedness between energy security and national survival"--
Review Quotes:
Tan's book [is] both timely and an essential new entry in the historiography on modern China.
-- "Asian Studies"