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China’s Type 055 destroyer

China Warship 5 Min Read

The Nanchang at the 2019 review They are Asia’s largest and most advanced destroyers, designed to guard China’s first home-grown aircraft carrier and meet the navy’s demand for modern warships. Moving at top speed to build up a global blue-water navy to safeguard its maritime interests, China has launched four Type 055 guided-missile destroyers in the past 13 months —…

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Major military engagements of the Taiping Rebellion

The Xiang Army recapturing Jinling, a suburb of the Taiping capital, July 19, 1864. The Taiping Rebellion devastated the landscape of southern China, causing widespread bloodshed and famine. Detail from The suppression of the Taiping Rebellion. Imperial troops during the Taiping Rebellion, China the wounded musketman is a Taiping rebel.…

China 6 Min Read

THE TAIPING REBELLION

The Xiang Army recapturing Jinling, a suburb of the Taiping capital, July 19, 1864 Taiping soldiers, male and female, outside Shanghai The Taiping “Rebellion” (1851–64), or “Revolution,” was a religious-based domestic uprising with ethnic—Han versus Manchu—overtones. Fought mainly with traditional Chinese weapons and tactics, it corresponded and overlapped with the…

Battle China 6 Min Read

Battle of Talas River – Redux

In 751 a Tang (T’ang) dynasty army commanded by Gao Xianzhi (Kao Hsien-chih), military governor of Anxi (An-hsi) in the Western Regions, met an Arab army in battle at Talas River near Samarkand. The Chinese were defeated. Although this was not a major military confrontation, it had great consequences. Tang…

China 23 Min Read

Imperial China: War and the Military I

There was a persistent military, cultural, and political conflict between various nomadic and semi-nomadic groups living in the steppe, and the sedentary, agricultural Chinese for most of imperial Chinese history. Steppe people were dependent upon their horses, which they used to drive their herds from pasture to pasture as the…

China 16 Min Read

Imperial China: War and the Military II

The Opium War between Great Britain and Qing dynasty China began because the Chinese prohibited the sale of opium by foreign, mostly British, merchants. European demand for Chinese goods—silk, porcelain, and tea—which had begun in the seventeenth century increased dramatically in the eighteenth century. The British came to dominate this…

British China Piracy 26 Min Read

THE DEMISE OF JOLLY ROGER I

The Suppression of Piracy in the East Indies and the South China Sea, 1855–69 As trade between Europe and the Far East developed, so did piracy, on a scale that dwarfed the activities of the Caribbean buccaneers of the previous century. It has been suggested that the pirates of the…

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Chinese Invention – Ship’s Rudder

Han Dynasty: circa 202 BC – 220 AD Chinese naval developments occurred far earlier than…

Weaponry in the Chinese Civil War

The Gongchen tank displayed at the Beijing Military Museum. The Gongchen is the Chinese designation…

The Chinese Invasion of India I

It was not entirely unexpected that the Chinese would attack. The Indians had observed a…

The Chinese War Junk I

Junk is a type of ancient Chinese sailing ship that is still in use today.…