In The Ming Dynasty Literature Research Of Coastal Defense

Ming Dynasty military science is an important turning point in Chinese histary,especially in coastal defense. Faster than the perevious generation and plays anextremely important role in the history of coastal defense development in China. Thereason is inseparable from the new coastal situation about the Ming Dynasty. From theYuan Dynasty, the Japanese merchant fleet began to evolve into armed robbery. Withthe development of time, as well as the corruption of the Ming Dynasty, Japanesepirates become a serious disasters in Jiajing era. Ming Dynasty adopting differentpolicies to prevent the pirates,for examble the prohibition of the sea and military force.Many people countributed to this thing, such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou. Until the endof Jiajing era, only few pirates can harass China. Kuanping eighteen years, Japaneseauthorities forbidden the people to leave the coast. Japanese pirates disappeared.At the beginning of the paper, we can find an overall overview about the coastaldefense books of Ming Dynasty.There is a summery about the books that we can findtoday and the reason why so mang books we can find. The following is the feature andthe affection of this books. The third chapter focuses on the view whitch we can fing inthe books. And the last, we need to explore countermeasures about Ming Dynasty. Thepurpues of this paper is to get an overall understanding of the Ming Dynasty coastaldefense policy. We can fing the different policies in the paper in order to help us to gainan systematic knowledge about Ming Dynasty coastal defense.