David and Jeremiah speak with Mike Wester about running @thebeijinger, organizing the “Safe and Sane” communities during the pandemic, and the future of expats in Beijing. Also, Jeremiah surprises David and Mike with an announcement.
David and I discuss what's going on with the Qing history project, a controversy about Genghis Khan in France, and how PRC continues punching back against potentially problematic pasts.
The flagship of the Beiyang fleet was the Dingyuan 定远 was an armored warship commissioned by the Qing imperial government and built in Germany in 1881. She was an impressive ship with one catastrophic design flaw.