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Training Workers and Engineers: The Fuzhou Navy Yard, 1866–1895

In: Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development

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  • Hsien-ch’un Wang

    (National Tsing Hua University)

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Chapter 2 has briefly mentioned the shipbuilding and firearm making of the Jiangnan Arsenal. Yet lack of documents limits our understanding of technical capacity of the arsenal. A more detailed record of the role of shipbuilding in the application of Western steam technology and related skills is the Fuzhou Navy Yard. As historians such as David Pong, Marianne Bastid, and others have shown, the navy yard was one of the productive new undertakings of the self-strengthening program. It imported machinery and hired foreign technicians. It built 15 wooden-hulled gunboats equipped with simple and small engines. The technical progress went as far as building steel-hulled cruisers by 1889 that were propelled by sophisticated and powerful engines.

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  • Hsien-ch’un Wang, 2022. "Training Workers and Engineers: The Fuzhou Navy Yard, 1866–1895," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development, chapter 0, pages 135-174, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-59813-4_5
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59813-4_5
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