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The oriental express / Xu Jian ; Callum Smith, translator.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jian, Xu, author.
- Series:
- From Inside China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--China.
- Qing Zang tie lu (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (456 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Nottingham, England] : [Aurora Publishing LLC], 2015.
- Summary:
- Joining the high Himalayan altitudes to mainland China, the Qinghai- Tibet Railway embodies the dreams of generations of Chinese and its leaders, including Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin. In a fastly developing globalized society, high-speed rail, accessibility and travel are often easy to dismiss and take for granted. But here, Xu Jian takes a step back, and station by station, relives the political and geographical challenges encountered during the railway's construction. It is a story not only of engineering, but of national pride, bloodshed, hardship, sacrifice, romance and sex.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 26, 2016).
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