[The China Project] China’s ‘southern disaster’: France lays waste to a Qing fleet

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English - August 23, 2023 18:11 - 10 minutes - 9.41 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
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A French sneak attack in 1884 led to a fundamental misunderstanding of Qing technological prowess. It’s time to reexamine the popular — but simplistic, if not outright wrong — idea that China’s military losses to Europe (and, later, Japan) owed to its inability to modernize.

Click here to read the article by James Carter.

Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.

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