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Wei Yuen-class: Gunboat: Fujian Maritime Administration: 1296-1300: 1887: 1894/9/17 Sunk in accident, or 1894/9/17 Badly damaged by the Japanese during the Battle of the Yalu River and beached [1] [3] [2] Hai Tung Hung (海東雄) Rendel gunboat: Whampoa Dockyard, Guangdong: 430: 1880: c. 1918 Stricken [1] [2] [4] Kuang Yuan (廣元) Kuang Yuan ...
The Republic of China Navy is the maritime branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces.The ROC Navy's primary mission is to defend ROC territories and the sea lanes that surround Taiwan against a blockade, attack, or possible invasion by the People's Liberation Army Navy of the People's Republic of China.
Zi Wei may refer to: Zi Wei (crater), on the Moon; Ziwei enclosure, or the Purple Forbidden enclosure, a constellation in Chinese astronomy;
Weiyuan General Cannon [3] (simplified Chinese: 威远将军炮; traditional Chinese: 威遠將軍炮), also known as "Weiyuan General Gun" or "Divine Invincible Great General Cannon", [4] was a large-caliber, short-barreled front-mounted mortar, [5] manufactured in the 29th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1690).
Although this work is lesser known than the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms published in 1843 by his contemporary Wei Yuan, A Short Account was more systematic in its description of Western geography. These works by Xu and Wei, ironically, were initially more influential in Japan than in their own country, where Wei's book went ...
The Ziwei Emperor resides in the middle of Heaven and assists the Jade Emperor in administrative duties of Heaven and Earth; Sun and Moon; four seasons and weather. He commands all deities of constellations, mountains, and rivers.
When the war ended in 1842, Lin's exile to the remote northwestern city of Yili meant that he passed his draft manuscript to Wei Yuan with a request that he complete it. Lin's contributions to the treatise proved so important that Karl Gützlaff mistakenly attributed the work to him in his September 1847 review for the Chinese Repository .
Empress Erzhu [1] (514–556) was an empress of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China. She was the wife of Emperor Xiaozhuang and a daughter of the paramount general Erzhu Rong. She later became a concubine of Northern Wei and Eastern Wei's paramount general Gao Huan.