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A history of the modern Chinese Navy, 1840-2020
Title
A history of the modern Chinese Navy, 1840-2020 / Bruce A. Elleman.
ISBN
1000393216
1000393240
1003138071
9781000393217
9781000393248
9781003138075
9780367685447
9780367685553
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 294 pages) : maps.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2021).
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Biographical / Historical Note
Bruce A. Elleman is William V. Pratt Professor of International History at the US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
Summary
"This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present. Beginning with a survey of naval developments in earlier imperial times, the book goes on to show how China has since the mid-nineteenth century four times built or rebuilt its navy: after the Opium Wars, a navy which was sunk or captured by the Japanese in the war of 1894-5; during the 1920s and 1930s, a navy again sunk or lost to Japan, in the war of 1937-45; in the 1950s, a navy built with Soviet help, which stagnated following the Sino-Soviet split in the early 1960s; and fourthly the present navy which absorbed its predecessor, but with the most modern sections dating from the 1990s - a navy which continues to grow and prosper. The book also shows how the underlying strategic imperative for the Chinese navy has been the defence of China's coasts and major rivers; how naval mutiny was a key factor in the overthrow of the Qing and the Nationalist regimes; and how successive Chinese governments, aware of the potent threat of naval mutiny, have restricted the growth, independence, and capabilities of the navy. Overall, the book provides-at a time when many people in the West view China and its navy as a threat-a rich, detailed, and realistic assessment of the true nature of the Chinese navy and the contemporary factors that affect its development"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Elleman, Bruce A., 1959- A history of the modern Chinese Navy, 1840-2020 Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 159
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface : Four Periods of modern Chinese naval development
Introduction : China's modern navy in historical perspective : the importance of coastal defense strategies
The origins of the modern navy under the Qing dynasty
The first opium war and Chinese naval modernization
The Chinese navy in the second opium war, in Okinawa, and in Annam
China's navy and the sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895
The Chinese navy's incomplete modernization and westernization
The new army reforms and the Chinese navy's impact of the Xinhai revolution
The nationalist navy from 1922 through 1938
The post-world war II nationalist navy through the Chinese civil war
Founding the PRC and the early history of the PLAN
The Chongqing mutiny and the creation of the PLAN
PLAN's coastal defense and the nationalist navy's use of the off-shore Islands to blockade China
The sino-Soviet alliance and the growth of the PLAN
The nationalist navy and China's PLAN as an emerging regional navy
Sino-Soviet conflict and the PRC decision to open relations with the United States
Modernization, westernization, and geographic responsibilities of the PLAN
China's historical and regional constraints and the future of the PLAN
Conclusions.
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