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made in Hanyang county, Shaanxi
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The rise and fall of the Hanyang Arsenal is depicted from the point of view of the chief office and chief engineer of the arsenal, and the significant impact that the weapons and ammunition manufactured at the factory had on the course of Chinese history. When they were about fourteen or fifteen years old, Pei Yuanji and Zhuge Jinhua were sent by Zhang Zhidong to the German Empire to study ordnance manufacture. They studied for ten years and returned to China in 1885, where they have been following Zhang Zhidong in planning the establishment of an arsenal. After ten years of...