Fried. Krupp’s ‘Chinese Trade’ prior to the First World War, 1895-1914

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61384399:31150/24:00060335

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae032" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae032</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae032" target="_blank" >10.1093/gerhis/ghae032</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fried. Krupp’s ‘Chinese Trade’ prior to the First World War, 1895-1914

Original language description

The German arms company Fried. Krupp exported weapons and military material to China beginning in the early 1870s. It achieved marked success during the 1880s and 1890s. The Sino-Japanese War (1894/95) represented an important milestone for the company’s ‘Chinese trade’. Because the Chinese government had to pay war reparations to Japan, it did not have the funds for purchasing weapons. As a result, not even the posting of German advisors to China saw particularly positive results. Following the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), an embargo on the import of weapons to China was declared. After the embargo was revoked in 1903, the German manufacturer never again achieved the results it had attained in 1884 and 1894. The Germans were negatively affected by the rise of Japanese influence in China following Japan’s victory in its war with Russia. Additionally, some of China’s plans were not in line with Krupp’s capabilities. The Essen company’s managers, for example, considered entirely unrealistic China’s plan to form thirty-six new divisions equipped with modern weapons, which Krupp would supply, by funding the construction of a huge munitions factory in Central China. Although China remained a major purchaser primarily of Krupp’s guns until the First World War, it was no longer one of its main customers. The outbreak of the First World War marked an end to Krupp’s activities in China and the entire Far East.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

German History

ISSN

0266-3554

e-ISSN

1477-089X

Volume of the periodical

42

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

379-391

UT code for WoS article

001272315900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85201282414