Reading List Lightning Wires Baark, Erik. 1997. Lightning wires: The telegraph and China’s technological modernization, 1860-1890. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Print. worldcat.org 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…