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[The China Project] China’s ‘southern disaster’: France lays waste to a Qing fleet
Manage episode 375043615 series 2865795
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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Manage episode 375043615 series 2865795
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.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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