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

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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