Chinese Ocean-The Inspection Of Sea Power Construction In Ming China

The thesis, under the guidance of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, with the methods of history, sociology, and military sciences, analyses and explains serial questions about the construction of sea power in Ming China. The thesis includes six parts.Introduction introduces the review of the academic history and the outline and methods of this research paper.Chapter I discuses the construction of sea power in early Ming dynasty, which included Hongwu, Yongle and xuande three eras.Chapter II discuses the construction of sea power in middle and later Ming China, which included three parts that were insider withdrawal and rebuild of sea power in mid-Ming, some new questions in construction of sea power in later Ming, and the rebuild and ruin of Liaodong navy.Chapter III discuses the power of diplomacy control in the construction of sea power, which through three given examples: Zheng Heh's trip to western seas, control Annan, and abnormal political relationships between China and Japan.Chapter IV explains the mutual infection of sea power between folk and government in Ming China. This mutual infection displayed in two way, one was government made a double policy to folk sea power, another was the folk sea power transformed the national sea power in some conditions.Chapter V introduces evolution of navy' s equipments and tactics in Ming China. It includes three sections which were navy' s vessels, battleship' s weapon, and the evolution of navy force tactics in Ming China.