近代中国的历史,发轫于漂洋过海而至的西方列强挑起的侵略战争,如何抵御来自海上的侵略,就成为近代中国历届政权和有识之士在对外政策上不得不面对的首要课题。从清末到民国时期,近代中国历史上曾经创建过多支海军,多次参与了保卫祖国疆土的对外战争,国内发生战事或者政治纠纷的重大关头,海军舰艇和官兵也曾扮演过重要的角色。笔者以“清末”“海军”为关键词在中国知网稍加检索,便查寻到了近3000条文献目录,其内容从海军装备、军港建设、军人教育、管理职能部门到海防思想的构建和对外战争的得失,更有多部学术专著和大型资料集问世,足见近年来近代中国海军史作为军事史、外交史、政治史、教育史多元交叉的一个新兴学科分支,至少已经在 The history of modern China, originating in the wars of aggression waged by Western powers that crossed the sea and how to resist aggression from the sea, became the foremost point in the foreign policy of all previous Chinese regimes and people of insight. Question. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, many navies were established in the history of modern China. They participated in many foreign wars that defend the territory of their motherland and at the moment of war or political disputes in their homeland. Navy ships and officers and soldiers also played an important role. The author searches for nearly 3,000 bibliographic catalogs with the key words of “Late Qing Dynasty” and “Navy” in CNKI. The contents range from naval equipment, military port construction, military education and management functions to Haiphong ideology And more and more academic monographs and large-scale data sets have come out. This shows that in recent years the Chinese naval history in modern China, as a newly emerging branch of the military history, diplomatic history, political history and education history, has at least been