Overview
One of very few English books on Qi Jiguang
Explores the military history of China
Elaborates on the maritime defence and developments of historical China
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Table of contents(14 chapters)
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Historiography, Biography and Doctrines of Qi Jiguang
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Maritime and Security Environment During Qi Jiguang’s Enterprise and Beyond
Keywords
- Qi Jiguang's Anti Wokou Campaign
- Hu Zongxian’s Anti Wokou Campaign
- Qi Jiguang and Martial Arts
- Qi Jiguang’s military method
- Arquebus volley technique in China
- Qi Jiguang’ and the Taiping Uprising
- PLA and Coastal Defence of China
- Ming-Qing maritime defence
- Warfare in 16th century East Asia
- Qi Jiguang and the Ming Dynasty
- Maritime trading in Fujian
- Retrogression in the mid-Ming Dynasty
- Portuguese and the Ming Dynasty Military
- Chinese merchant-pirates in Southeast Asia
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Reviews
“The contributions that make up this volume are all highly fascinating and provide new evidence and perspectives on maritime East Asia during the Ming, and the personal role of Qi Jiguang. … Sim’s collection provides a fresh and comprehensive examination of Chinese coastal defense and warfare maneuvers in the Ming and Qing eras from the perspective of military history.” (XING HANG, Ming Studies, Vol. 2019 (79), May, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Y.H. Teddy Sim
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Maritime Defence of China
Book Subtitle: Ming General Qi Jiguang and Beyond
Editors: Y.H. Teddy Sim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4163-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4162-4Published: 18 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5067-2Published: 12 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 277
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Military, Military and Defence Studies, History of China, History of Southeast Asia