Reading List
To be acquired
Lightning Wires
Baark, Erik. 1997. Lightning wires: The telegraph and China’s technological modernization, 1860–1890. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Print.
The grammar of the telegraph in the Late Qing
Zhang Wenyang. 2018. “The grammar of the telegraph in the Late Qing: the design and application of Chinese telegraphic codebooks.” Journal of Modern Chinese History 12:2, 227–245. doi:10.1080/17535654.2018.1540191.
To be read
Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration
Wikipedia contributors. 2021. “Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration.” Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Web.
Chinese telegraph code
Wikipedia contributors. 2021. “Chinese telegraph code.” Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Web.
In progress
The Chinese Typewriter
Mullaney, Thomas S. 2018. The Chinese Typewriter: A History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Print.
Lecture
Mullaney, Thomas S. 2019. “The Chinese Typewriter: A History.” Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium, June 18, 2019. Recording available on Youtube.
“They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”
Suny, Ronald Grigor. 2017. “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Print. ISBN: 9780691175966 (paperback).
Preventing desert locust plagues: optimizing management interventions
van Huis, Arnold, Keith Cressman, and Joyce I. Magor. 2007. “Preventing desert locust plagues: Optimizing management interventions.” Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 122: 191–214. doi:10.1111/j.1570-7458.2006.00517.
Read
The Victorian Internet
Standage, Tom (author) and Derek Perkins (narrator). 2015. The Victorian Internet: The remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century’s on-line pioneers. Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Tantor Audio. Audiobook.
