Routledge, 2020. — 296 p. This book analyses China’s maritime strategy for the 21st century, integrating strategic planning, policy thinking and strategic prediction. This book explains the construction and application of China's military, political, economic and diplomatic means for building maritime power, and predicts the future of China's maritime power by 2049, as well as...
Admiralty Trilogy Group, 2021. — 104 p. In February 2016, the East Sea Fleet, North Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet were renamed “Theater Command Navies:” • The Northern Theater Command Navy (NTCN) (Beihai Fleet) • The Southern Theater Command Navy (STCN) (Nanhai Fleet) • The Eastern Theater Command Navy ETCN (Donghai Fleet). The main bases in the NTCN are Dalian and Qingdao;...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 224 р. In this new edition, Bernard Cole revises his acclaimed study of China s navy, one that continues to grow while the U.S. Navy shrinks. According to the author, Beijing is now giving increased attention to guarding its vital sea lanes because of the nation s growing dependence on maritime trade, especially energy supplies. He provides a...
Congressional Research Service, 2020. — 42 p. In an era of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for more than 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military...
Rohan Vij, 2015. — 182 p. China's Maritime Power dates back thousands of years. China has one of the oldest naval traditions in the world, dating from at least the end of the Warring States period in 221 BC. Nonetheless, China has historically been a continental state with a large ground force and only a coastal navy with limited blue water capability. The rise of modern day...
Naval War College Press, 2012. — 171 p. — (Newport Papers). Following its defeat on the mainland in 1949, the Nationalist government retreated to island Taiwan. Although the Nationalist navy was comparatively large, to many it seemed almost certain that the People's Republic of China (PRC) would attack and take Taiwan, perhaps as early as summer 1950. The Korean War began on 25...
Routledge, 2021. — 295 p. 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-19th century four times built or rebuilt its navy: after the Opium Wars, a navy which was sunk or captured by the Japanese in the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2017. — 354 p. — ISBN13 9781898823674. — ISBN10 1898823677. This book provides a history of the South China Sea conflict and lays out the stakes for each of the bordering states and China's interaction with them - namely, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia; it also examines the U.S. government's role in the region....
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 320 p. In modern history, China has been primarily a land power, dominating smaller states along its massive continental flanks. But China's turn toward the sea is now very much a reality, as evident in its stunning rise in global shipbuilding markets, its vast and expanding merchant marine, the wide offshore reach of its energy and minerals...
Routledge, 2007. — 192 p. Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analysts now routinely invoke Mahan’s writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. Economics is the prime motivation for maritime reorientation, and...
Routledge, 2006. — 209 p. This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century. China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets challenged dominant maritime powers for regional hegemony:...
Springer-Verlag, 2015. — 318 p. This book analyzes the rise of China’s naval power and its possible strategic consequences from a wide variety of perspectives – technological, economic, and geostrategic – while employing a historical-comparative approach throughout. Since naval development requires huge financial resources and mostly takes place within the context of transnational...
Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 288 p. Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is no mystery what he wants, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." He wants this latter objective to be largely completed by 2035. China as a...
MMP Books, 2012. — 132 p. This new book covers the Sino-French Naval War 1884-1885, a little-known part of late 19th century naval history. The background, operations and outcomes are described in detail. All the ships involved, both French and Chinese, are described and illustrated with full technical specifications. Profusely illustrated with scale drawings and photos.
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2014. — 180 p. — (Maritime Series 3105). — ISBN10 83-63678-30-9; ISBN13 978-83-63678-30-2. The First Sino–Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea. After more than six months of continuous successes by the Japanese army and naval forces, as well as...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2014. — 180 p. — (Maritime Series 3105). — ISBN10: 83-63678-30-9; ISBN13: 978-83-63678-30-2. The First Sino–Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea. After more than six months of continuous successes by the Japanese army and naval forces, as well...
Harvard University Press, 1967. — 332 p. The Traditional Chinese Water Force and Its Failure in the Opium War. China’s Delayed Response to the Western Naval Challenge. The Military Self-Strengthening Movement, to 1875. Li Hung-chang and Naval Development, 1875-1885. Achievements and Problems in the Military Building Effort, 1875-1884. Disaster in the South: The Chinese Navy in...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 p. This book is a comprehensive study of the development of China’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). It offers insights into the secretive world of nuclear submarines and ballistic missiles of the Chinese (PLA) Navy and studies how these are likely to grow in the next two decades. The volume examines the technological origins of the...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 p. This book is a comprehensive study of the development of China’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). It offers insights into the secretive world of nuclear submarines and ballistic missiles of the Chinese (PLA) Navy and studies how these are likely to grow in the next two decades. The volume examines the technological origins of the...
Office of Naval Intelligence Press, 2007. — 144 p. Over the past decade, the Chinese Navy has embarked on a modernization program with the goal of being the preeminent regional power in East Asia. By acquiring some of the world’s most impressive naval technologies from abroad while simultaneously building advanced indigenous submarines, combatants, and naval aircraft, China is...
Chatham Publishing, 2001. — 209 p. After 1860, the Chinese Empire made considerable efforts to acquire a modern navy to enable it to compete with the European colonial powers and the increasing threat from Japan. This book details the history of that development through the collapse of the empire and the Nationalist period up to the end of the Second World War. A full account...
Georgetown University Press, 2023. — 259 p. New details about the founding of China’s Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategy. From 1949 to 1950, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China’s periphery. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet in order to capture key offshore...
Georgetown University Press, 2023. — 259 p. New details about the founding of China’s Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategy. From 1949 to 1950, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China’s periphery. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet in order to capture key offshore...
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