Steamboats On The Yangtze River

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! After thousands of years of junk and sampan traffic on the Yangtze River (Jiang), river steamers came with the Europeans. The steam engines brought technological improvement. The age of the steamer lasted nearly 150 years-from 1835 to 1980-and had lasting impacts on the Middle Kingdom of China. River trade in China was essential to the economy in a land with poor roads and few railways. Yet the steam engine and its ability to go upstream came with the extraterritorial rights that went to the Westerners. Dannoe izdanie predstavlyaet soboj kompilyatsiyu svedenij, nahodyaschihsya v svobodnom dostupe v srede Internet v tselom, i v informatsionnom setevom resurse "Vikipediya" v chastnosti. Sobrannaya po chastotnym zaprosam ukazannoj tematiki, dannaya kompilyatsiya postroena po printsipu podbora blizkih informatsionnyh ssylok, ne imeet samostoyatelnogo syuzheta, ne soderzhit nikakih analiticheskih materialov, vyvodov, otsenok moralnogo, eticheskogo, politicheskogo, religioznogo i mirovozzrencheskogo haraktera v otnoshenii glavnoj tematiki, predstavlyaya soboj isklyuchitelno faktologicheskij material. This book was created using print-on-demand technology.