1 1.1 The eighth largest navy in the world 3 1.2 Tried to write "Chinese Naval History" 6 1.3 Phases of the Sino-Japanese War 10 1.4 The original four modernizations, first cannons and then boats 12 1.5 The Navy began with the Anti-Japanese War 15 1.6 The Chinese Navy's end-of-life years 17 1.7 The fiction and reality of the Beiyang Fleet 20 1.8 Fighting a country with one school level 24 1.9 Yan Fu, Liu Buchan and Li Yuanhong 27 32 2.1 The Navy Yamen is a big "fat" 35 2.2 Li and He made a bad relationship and highlighted Prince Chun 38 2.3 Qing imperial real estate tour 40

2.4 Palace life of 40,000 taels a day 44 2.5 The old lady is not as good as the little Abasang 47 2.6 Public sale of official titles 50 2.7 Affectionate "ruling party" is the core of corruption 52 2.8 Set up "Naval Academy" in "Kunming Lake" 54 2.9 One shot in five minutes, five shots in one minute 59 2.10 Lao Li and Lao Jiang offended the "Heroes of the World" 63 68 3.1 Pants on the cannon, eunuchs reviewing the army 69 3.2 Three Strategies to Raise Korea 74 3.3 Teshima is the predecessor of Pearl Harbor 78 3.4 Li Hongzhang discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy and ourselves 82

3.5 The Admonitions of Inferior Foreign Members Are Untrustworthy 84 3.6 The truth about the bloody battle in Dadonggou 89 3.7 Our ships line up, the enemy ships attack in a cone 94 3.8 Friendship in the last days, people are not as good as dogs 96 3.9 The mysterious case of Jiyuan and Guangjia 98 3.10 Liu Buchan has a brilliant record 99 102 4.1 First look at the theory of "social transformation" 103 4.2 "Transition period" is the "bottleneck" of social development 105 4.3 Let’s see the gradual transformation of the “Emperor” 108 4.4 "Social transformation" takes hundreds of years 109

4.5 The "modern" treatment of inherent culture 111 4.6 From "Technological Modernization" to "Political Modernization" 113 4.7 A sad Japanese "Letter of Surrender" 116 119 5.1 Anatomy of Kang Youwei 121 5.2 The privileged child prodigy 122 5.3 The bitterness of a twenty-year-old boy 124 5.4 Learning is the harvest of frustrated and hard study 126 5.5 The whole story of Liang Qichao's investment strategy 129 5.6 How much "Western learning" did the sage know? 130 135 6.1 Brief introduction to "modern literature" 136

6.2 From Dong Zhongshu and Liu Xin to the leadership of the party 139 6.3 "First Master" and "Su Wang" 142 6.4 "The Study of Qianjia" in "Our Anhui" 145 6.5 The masters of modern literature 147 6.6 "Longer" than "Su" Wang, "Chaohui" and "Jiameng" 148 6.7 "Supreme leaders" are all independent husbands 150 154 7.1 The "sage" asks the "father of the nation" to learn from him 154 7.2 Writing through the emperor's teacher 156 7.3 The beginning and end of "Bus Letter" 158

7.4 The future looks at the present, and the present looks at the past 160 7.5 The beginning of the people's inquiry into politics and the "princelings" 161 7.6 The establishment and momentum of "Strong Society" 163 7.7 The New Deal and New Ideas were destroyed by dogmatism 166 7.8 Compensation outweighs contribution 168 7.9 The threat of partition and the will to strengthen 170 7.10 Only protect China, not Qing Dynasty? 173 7.11 The venerable and pathetic Emperor Guangxu 175 7.12 The "lower policy" in the "Three Strategies for Eastern Affairs" 178

180 The Background of Taixue's Establishment 181 Taixue: Confucian "Central Party School" 183 The Development of Taixue 185 The selection and career path of Tai students 186 Professors and Departments in Taixue 188 Dispute of Schools 189 Metamorphosis of Taixue 192 A Comparison of Imperial Schools and Private Schools 194 Proximate Causes of the Decline of Taixue 195 199 9.1 Summoned Kang Youwei, determined to reform 199 9.2 "Overhead politics" with ancients and newcomers 202 9.3 One hundred days without reform and law change 205 9.4 Lafayette's palm 208

9.5 Yuan Shikai whistleblower 212 9.6 Stele of the Eighth Movement Party 214 9.7 In necessity there is chance 216 9.8 Understand the changes of the past and the present, and understand the strengths of China and the West 219