Abstract
Chapter 7, “National Defense and Military Culture,” written by Cheng Yonglin and translated by Zhou Yajuan, delves into two aspects of Chinese culture normally ignored by general works on China, namely, its national defense policy and its military system. This chapter examines the characteristics and significance of both in a historical context.
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From a BBC report entitled Great Wall of China “even longer” Broadcast. April 20, 2009.
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“Great Wall of China even longer than previously thought” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . June 6, 2012.
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These marauding pirates were essentially of Japanese mixed blood and were prevalent in the South Seas at that time. They were a real menace as they suddenly attacked and harassed coastal villages, not only in China, but also in Korea and Japan. See Prof. Wang Yong, “Realistic and Fantastic Images of ‘Dwarf Pirates’: The Evolution of Ming Dynasty Perceptions of the Japanese.” In Prof. Joshua A. Fogel, ed., Sagacious Monks and Bloodthirsty Warriors: Chinese Views of Japan in the Ming-Qing Period (East Bridge, 2002), 17–41.
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Klaudy, Kinga. Explication. In Mona, Baker (Ed), Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies [M]. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 1998.
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Xu, G., Chen, Y., Xu, L. (2018). National Defense and Military Culture. In: Xu, G., Chen, Y., Xu, L. (eds) Understanding Chinese Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8162-0_7
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