{"id":444,"date":"2019-05-12T22:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee.png"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T14:53:22","slug":"3-foreign-built-railways-in-china_andrew-lee","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/empire-on-railways\/attachment\/3-foreign-built-railways-in-china_andrew-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Built Railways in China_Andrew Lee"},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-444","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee.png' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-219x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-768x1051.png 768w, https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-748x1024.png 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the start of the 1900s, there was a scramble to build railroads in imperial China by the major European powers to earn money, gain provisional control, and extract riches from the surrounding areas. This model proved incredibly successful for the British and Germans, with their railroads linking major Eastern cities; however, France\u2019s colonial railway, leading through the mountainous Yunnan Province into Vietnam (French Indochina), was a failure. France\u2019s railway connected only small cities, while the other powers\u2019 railways connect China\u2019s megacities, explaining why France\u2019s railway is no longer operated, while the others are major lines in the Chinese network.<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Map Creator: Andrew Lee \u201919<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/png","media_details":{"width":2177,"height":2980,"file":"2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee.png","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-150x150.png","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-150x150.png"},"medium":{"file":"3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-219x300.png","width":219,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-219x300.png"},"medium_large":{"file":"3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-768x1051.png","width":768,"height":1051,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-768x1051.png"},"large":{"file":"3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-748x1024.png","width":748,"height":1024,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-748x1024.png"},"vw-portfolio-homepage-thumb":{"file":"3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-240x145.png","width":240,"height":145,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee-240x145.png"},"full":{"file":"3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee.png","width":2177,"height":2980,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":60,"source_url":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee.png","filename":"3-Foreign-Built-Railways-in-China_Andrew-Lee.png","filesize":1457333,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"page","id":60,"href":"https:\/\/zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}