China and the Erie Canal

Craig R. Hanyan

Business History Review, 1961, vol. 35, issue 4, 558-566

Abstract: China's Imperial Canal excited the imagination of a succession of travelers. While American and British canal promoters were interested in the technological details, the true importance of the Chinese precedent lay in the breadth of concept — a gigantic, state-supported geophysical manipulation in the interests of interregional trade.

Date: 1961
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