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