The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and its Modern Fate

Wagner, Donald B.

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“…2 ), but it was a critical raw material produced in proximity to markets throughout the Middle Ages. Significantly, the concept of vertical integration of the value chain was a theme in Medieval manufactories of Europe and in areas of China up to the 19th century that were isolated from trade routes ( Boserup, 1981 ; Wagner, 1995 ; Fig. 5 a, c, d).…”

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“…5 a, c, d). Efficient, cost-competitive and capital-intensive production methods that operated using the economies of scale were discontinued in China due to the combined effects of a 19th century national downturn, foreign competition, and alternative investment opportunities ( Wagner, 1995 ). In contrast, skills and low-capital production methods were retained for local production and manufacturing, where technological inefficiency was balanced by low labour costs and the high transport costs of importation.…”

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“…5 Trends in production of iron ore from the 12th to 21st century as a function of European consumption (a), source of energy (b), international economic (and political/military) strategies for production (c), the scale of international mining and processing (d), description of industrial revolutions for economic forecasting of sectoral trends (e). Compiled using data from Boserup, 1981 ; Nakajima et al., 2018 ; Prisecaru, 2016 ; Wagner, 1995 ; the World Mineral Statistics database of the British Geological Survey and online statistics of the United Stated Geological Survey. …”

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The re-direction of small deposit mining: Technological solutions for raw materials supply security in a whole systems context

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Large-scale mining of low-grade ores is energy-intensive and generates vast wastes. It has limited suitability for production of specialist metals that are required in relatively small quantities. An approach that limits environmental impact by restricting mining to high-grade deposits requires the investigation of small ore deposits as alternative sources of metals. The return on investment from small deposits is incompatible with the expensive surveys needed to secure investment and the high costs of managing risk. But increasing energy and transport costs may create space in the market for small-deposit mining with highly-competitive technological solutions. It can be argued that small-deposit mining is ethical because it must involve cooperation between mining companies and local residents who share a collective expectation and responsibility for their quality of life. However, small-deposit mining tends to be a limited, short-term initiative, which requires consideration of the extended ‘afterlife’ of mines. This manuscript is the culmination of five years of cross-sector dialogue and stakeholder engagement activities. It debates what constitutes a small deposit and describes the interactions between mining and manufacturing, investment, environment and society. It reaches the conclusion that technological innovations will support the re-emergence of small deposit mining as an important part of a diverse raw materials production sector. We do not suggest a return to past approaches, to mining of small, high-grade deposits, but a consideration of alternative narratives of localised, community-orientated mining processes, thus giving social, economic and environmental context to the needs of the present day.

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“…18 They might investigate why iron production in China started on an industrial scale two thousand years ago but eventually ended up small-scale, whereas in Europe the historical trend was exactly the inverse. 19 Although comparison is not essential to such investigations, contrasts between societies help draw attention to the significance of technologies and technological choices in specific social contexts. Studies of this kind, which delve beneath the surface categorizations of technological activities to ask what broader cultural purposes they serve, 20 pave the way toward a more convincing incorporation of technology into world history.…”

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How Blind Is Love?: Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China

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Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China revolutionized conventional views of the history of science and technology. The first volumes were welcomed as works of astonishing erudition and intellectual daring, but later Needham was increasingly criticized for promoting an outdated model of how science, technology and society are related, and for exaggerating the scientific achievements of premodern China. Winchester is neither a historian of science nor a historian of technology, still less a committed Marxist philosopher of science as Needham was. His popular biography of Needham presents his great enterprise almost as a caricature of the shortcomings for which it was criticized and ignores many of its most significant and enduring strengths. This essay considers the positive legacy and reworkings of Needham's critical crusade to present science and technology as a common human project, always and everywhere a product of intercultural flows and exchanges rather than the unique fruit of Western superiority.

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The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and its Modern Fate

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