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HIST4702 (2023-24) Digital History Project: 火攻挈要

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Examining the Development of Firearms Technology: through Data Visualization

Our project consists of four parts.

1. Part one traces the interrelationship between Huo gong qie yao and other late-Ming books on artillery.
2. Part two uncovers mid-Qing military writers’ adaption of Huo gong qie yao in the post-First Opium War period.
3. Part three sorts out its complicated gunpowder formulas into categories.
4. Part four makes an experimental attempt to analyze the origin of knowledge in Schall’s book.

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