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Chuan Huan (穿環)

When you just have to have a carnival ring toss game during a siege....

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A critique of Samuel Hawley's The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China — Part 2: The second invasion

While part 1 isn't complete yet, I've decided I should put out a part 2 first and translate the part about important battles first. This is also WIP, stay tuned for update.

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Update 11 September 2019

Part 2 of the translation is also completed.

A critique of Samuel Hawley's The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China — Part 1: The first invasion

Part one of this two-part article.

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Update 11 September 2019

Part 1 of the translation is completed...mostly.

Chinese fortification: an overview of parts and terminology — Part 2: Gate and moat (WIP)

Part 2 of my Chinese fortification series. 

As of 13 August 2019, the article is finally completed. I am sorry for the long delays.

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Chinese fortification: an overview of parts and terminology — Part 1: The wall

An overview of the parts and terminology of Chinese fortification.

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UPDATE 20/6/2019

As of now, the Part 1 of article is completed. I am sorry for the delays and thank you for bearing with me.

Also, while we are at it, I should take the chan...

Justin Ma & Blake Cole's arrow penetration test on Chinese lamellar armour replica

I don't normally share other people's work here, but this is simply too good to pass up. Justin Ma and Blake Cole from The Way of Archery, in collaboration with Cathay Armoury, just released a arrow penetration test on Chinese armour as the first episode of their Warfare Research Series.

As far as I am aware, this is the first test on Asiatic lamellar armour conducted with authentic reproductions, scientific measuring equipment, sufficiently powerful bow and heavy arrows, and I must say...

Shen Ji Wan Sheng Huo Long Dao (神機萬勝火龍刀)

Another fire lance.

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Fu Di Chong Tian Lei (伏地衝天雷)

A.K.A the land mine that killed one musketeer.

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Katai Empire coming to Kickstarter

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of update for the past few weeks. Life, or more precisely my job, is giving me one hell of a difficult time -  it's hard living as a wage slave. 

Anyway.

It's old news now, but recently Zenit Miniatures launched the Katai Empire range for their Kensei/Torii tabletop wargame on Kickstarter...

Duo Qian Fang Pai (奪鉛防牌)

The cowhide is the medieval kelvar, and the cow horn plates function as ceramic inserts......or something like that.

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Second Impression: Upcoming Kensei faction: The Empire of Katai

 *All images in this article are taken from the Official Kensei Facebook page. 

Recently Zenit Miniatures revealed more info about the upcoming Kensei/Torii faction, The Empire of Katai, and announced that the new range will be coming to Kickstarter soon. As 2019-03-08 14:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Telling apart Chinese polearms: a quick visual guide

I figured it will be a good idea to make a simple visual guide to help people telling what is what.

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(Unfortunately, looking for the pictures of Chinese polearms is a pain in the a*se, so I will update the blog post one step at a time)

Huo Qiu (火毬)

Introduction to early incendiary bomb.

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A brief overwiew of the invention and development of naval mine during the Ming Dynasty

This article is actually the continuation of my blog post about Ming naval mines as I feel my previous article does not do the topic justice. While it's pretty well-known that Chinese invented both naval mines, the history of the development of naval mines is little understood and rarely discussed.

This article seeks to remedy that (somewhat...

Square formation of Xu Lun (許論) — Part 3

First 2019 blog post and the third of my three-part Northern formation series

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Maces of the Ming Dynasty

A revised article about Chinese maces and flails. I also seperated the meteor hammer into its own blog post.

Mace 

Flail 

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Shui Di Long Wang Pao (水底龍王砲) and Hun Jiang Long (混江龍)

Or stuffs that go boom under your ship.

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Square formation of Xu Lun (許論) — Part 2

Second of my three-part Northern formation series. 

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Square formation of Xu Lun (許論) — Part 1

First of my three-part Northern formation series.

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[Obsolete/Outdated] The first multistage rocket in the world

Recorded in fourteenth century military treatise Huolongjing, the "Fire dragon rising out of the water", or Huo Long Chu Shui (火龍出水), is the first known mention of multistage rocket, which makes Chinese people the inventor of not just rocket, but multistage rocket as well...

Impression : Upcoming Kensei faction: Katai Empire

*All images in this article are taken from the Official Kensei Facebook page.

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Si Chuan Fei Shi (四川飛石)

Sichuanese trebuchet.

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Tai Ping Che (太平車)

Only with China's massive walls that Chinese military innovators would be required to design something like this.

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Battle of Byeokjegwan — EXTRA: list of named casualties

I originally intended to add this list to the second part of my Battle of Byeokjegwan article series, but ultimately decided against it because the list isn't part of the original Chinese article that I translated (I actually compiled the list myself). Then again, since I already spent the effort to make the list, it'd be a waste if I don't put it up somewhere, so here...

Ye Meng Xiong's Qing Che (輕車)

Ye Meng Xiong, this man gets the meaning of "more dakka".

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Shields of China's peripherals and Sinosphere

With few exceptions, the development of shields in China's peripherals and East Asian cultural sphere closely mirrored that of China, although they often lagged slightly behind the latest development or trend in China.

Goguryeo Kingdom (contemporary to Sixteen Kingdoms period)

(Section of a mural found in 2018-07-25 16:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The evolution of shields in China — Part 3: Song to Qing

Third of my four-part (yes, it becomes four part halfway) article discussing Chinese shield.

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So what's wrong with For Honor's upcoming Tiandi?

Well, nothing, to be honest. Just so you know, I am really hyped about the upcoming For Honor expansion. I only write this post because I just learned that there's actually a way to attach multiple pictures to a single article in Patreon (no seriously, I am not joking!), and wanted to try ...

Rant: bloat blog

Just scanned my blog at Google PageSpeed Insight...apparently my blog is so bloated that it loads and getting indexed slowly! What should I do now?

The evolution of shields in China — Part 2: Northern and Southern Dynasties to Tang

Second of my three-part article discussing Chinese shield (Actually it might become a four-part series, but I digress)

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