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| | Li Hongzhang - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Li Hongzhang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | He established a modern navy, the Beiyang fleet, 1888, which was humiliatingly destroyed in the Sino-Japanese War. |
 | | Li became aware of the need to ‘learn from the West’ from his association with British general Charles Gordon during the Taiping Rebellion 1850–64, which his regional Anhui army helped to suppress. |
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