Late Qing Dynasty Military Culture Changes And The Development Of Military Technology

Throughout the world military history,military culture is the deep dominant factor which influence military revolution and military technology progress. A certain sense, the advanced nature of the military culture decided the scientific nature of the military technology progress.The hysteresis quality of military technology mostly stems from the military culture hysteresis quality.China is the hometown of gunpowder,however she has not been able to become pacemaker of the firearm technological revolution,the traditional military culture inherent flaw implicates is the noticeable factor. After entering the modern times, the West military power has opened the door of sealed empire relied on the firm ship and advantage artillery,pursued the slow development of Chinese tradition military culture. Therefore the late Qing dynasty military culture marched into the long course of vicissitude from the tradition to the modern.By analyzing the military culture in late Qing dynasty,this paper find it has profound Chinese characteristics and era characteristics in the external environment,way of thinking,value orientations,and strategic policy,and forms a sub-cultural factors which influencing the relatively stable of military culture. The paper cites Benedict’s cultural pattern theory, Point out China and the West military culture is two kind of different military cultural pattern,even there is contradictory to social values. However, the Western advanced weapon has acted as the final conclusion in the dispute of China and the West military culture,Chinese military culture is forced on the long road of track and imitate to the west,and have obvious changes in the military culture,such as military environmental,military value,military thinking and military strategic culture.These changes respectively affect military technology subject structure,military technology development mode,.military technology development level and military technology development strategy.Late Qing dynasty military technology achievements and limitations are all closely related to these changes.Advanced military culture construction and military technology development, have a special significance for the period of Renaissance China.This research can povide useful enlightenment and theoretical support for cultivating advanced military culture and setting up development strategy of defense techology.It also helps to understand the overall level of China military technology,find a effective way for military development and estimate the right time to catch up the military development country.