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Sino-Japanese War

China France Japan Wars 31 Min Read

The Battle of the Yalu River (“Naval Battle of the Yellow Sea”) was the largest naval engagement of the Qing-Japan War, and took place on 17 September 1894, the day after the Japanese victory at the land Battle of Pyongyang. It involved ships from the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Qing Beiyang Fleet. The battle is also known by a…

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Treaty of Nerchinsk

Kangxi Emperor. A portrait of the Kangxi emperor in court dress, from a silk scroll hanging in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The main army of the Qing Empire, the Eight Banners Army, was in decline under Kangxi. It was smaller than it had been at its peak under Hong…

Biography China 4 Min Read

Dorgon (1612–1650) prince regent of China

Prince Dorgon was regent for his nephew between 1644 and 1650. He seized the opportunity offered by Ming general Wu Sangui (Wu San-kuei) to lead the Manchu forces inside the Great Wall and together to defeat the rebels who had seized Beijing (Peking) that ended the Ming dynasty. After defeating…

Biography China 4 Min Read

Abahai Khan (1592–1643)

Manchu military and political leader Abahai (also named Hung Taiji) was the eighth son of Nurhaci, a Jurchen tribal chieftain who founded the Manchu state in what is today northeastern China. Elected by the Hosoi Beile, or council of clan princes and nobles, in 1623 to be his father’s successor,…

Biography China 7 Min Read

ZHOU ENLAI WWII

Zhou Enlai was born March 5, 1898, in Huaian County, Jiangsu Province. Upon graduating from Tianjin Middle School, he studied at Waseda and Nippon universities in Japan (1917–1918), before enrolling in Nankai University in Tianjin. He rarely attended classes, however, becoming immersed in student mobilization as one of the organizers…

China 18 Min Read

THE TAIPING REBELLION 1851—1864

The Taiping forces’ victory over the Qing army in capturing Nanjing is depicted here. The Taiping soldiers, were relentless in training and became fierce fighters. Harvard Yenching Library. This civil war in mid—nineteenth century china killed more people than any other war in history except world war ii and inspired…

China Weapons 4 Min Read

Chinese Missiles

DF-31A intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM at military parade of September 3, 2015 The new DH-10 LACM poses a serious threat to US and allied naval vessels in the western Pacific. Chinese sources report the ground launched CJ-10 to be the GLCM variant of the DH-10 design, carried on a three…

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Weaponry in the Chinese Civil War

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

Chinese Invention – Ship’s Rudder

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

War Junks

There are many types of sea-going Chinese Junks. They usually have a high stern and…

The Chinese Invasion of India I

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