Foreword: A lingering sentiment for Chinese petroleum -- Chinese advances with petroleum in antiquity -- The six old oilfields in modern China : small scale and weak foundation -- China's first on-land oilfield : Yanchang Oilfield -- Yumen Oilfield, 1939 : China's first modern petroleum base --...

The origins of Dafeng, Lixin and Dacheng -- Technology networks in the Yangzi Delta -- Integrated firms in a dual market -- War and isolation -- The great leap outwards -- The socialist transition and the Shanghai : Hong Kong network -- Trade and industrialization in Hong Kong -- Networks in the...