The Fleet with the Flying Dragon Flag: the Rise and Fall of China's Modern Navy (part 1) (illustrated Collection)

About This Novel

This book records and analyzes in detail the tortuous history of the creation, development and decline of China's modern navy in the fifty years of the late Qing Dynasty (1861-1911). It makes unique observations and analyzes on naval ship purchase, education, training, base construction, revenue and expenditure, naval strategy and other fields, and clearly demonstrates the close connection between the modern navy and the development of Chinese society. As a leading work in the study of my country's modern naval history, this book has both independent insights into major historical events and elucidation of little-known behind-the-scenes issues; it has a broad vision to oversee the overall situation and precise efforts to verify details; it has both a dynamic study of the development process of the modern navy and a static thematic analysis of issues such as ship performance; it is both a history of the development of the modern navy and a map of the political ecology of the late Qing Dynasty. In this updated edition, the author specially researched the Dragon Flag in the late Qing Dynasty and added the representative photos of the two dragon flags collected by the former residence of Li Hongzhang in Hefei and the British Maritime Museum, as well as precious old photos such as a group photo of officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy's "Jingyuan" ship. There are more than 400 illustrations in the book. In addition, the addition of the section "Recovering Dongsha and Patrolling Xisha" enriches the historical research on the Guangdong Navy and pays tribute to the ancestors who defended the country's rights and interests in the South China Sea and the military currently fighting on the front lines of the South China Sea.

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