Tomb Sweeping Festival Activity: Memorial to the Beiyang Fleet Sailors Cemetery in Newcastle (清明节纽卡斯尔拜祭北洋水师水兵墓)

Yu, Jiarui

Abstract

This article presents the practice of holding a memorial ceremony for the five Beiyang Fleet sailors who unfortunately died in Newcastle Elswick (in 1881 and 1887) when collecting cruisers ordered by the Qing government at Armstrong Factory. This article also tells the history of how the cemetery was rebuilt after a hundred years of wrack, the course of the Qing government’s Self-strengthening Movement in the late nineteenth century, and the experience of the Beiyang Fleet sailors when they came to the Victorian UK.

Citation

Yu, J. (2023). Tomb Sweeping Festival Activity: Memorial to the Beiyang Fleet Sailors Cemetery in Newcastle (清明节纽卡斯尔拜祭北洋水师水兵墓). [Chinese Headline New Media-UK（华人头条-英国）]

• Online Publication Date: Apr 23, 2023
• Publication Date: Apr 23, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jan 11, 2024
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2118578