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Rails: Building the Peking–Hankow railway

When imperial China wanted to construct the first major domestically-oriented railway line from Peking to Hankow (a city that in 1927 merged with Wuhan on the other side of the Yangtze river), they turned to a Belgian company. Why? In the turn of the 20th century, as part of its modernisation efforts, China wanted to connectContinue reading “Rails: Building the Peking–Hankow railway”