Dragon River Shipyard

The Dragon River Shipyard or Longjiang shipyard ( Chinese  龍江船廠  /  龙江船厂 , Pinyin Lóngjiāng chuánchǎng , English Dragon River Shipyard / Longjiang Shipyard ) in the city of Nanjing to the Chinese province of Jiangsu , in the first half of the 15th century was in the time a major shipyard on the Yangzi River during the Ming Dynasty .

The site of the Dragon River Shipyard ( Longjiang chuanchang yizhi ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-81) since 2006 .

literature

• Hans Lothar Scheuring: The dragon river shipyard from Nanking. The Lung-chiang ch'uan-ch'ang chih, a Ming-time source on the history of Chinese shipbuilding, ISBN 389228136X , Haag + Herchen 1987
• Li Zhaoxiang 李昭祥 (author), Wang Lianggong (ed.): Longjiang chuanchang zhi 龍江 船廠 志 (Nanjing: Jiangsu guji chubanshe, 1999) (Jiangsu difang wenxian congshu)

Web links

• Summary of Nanjing and the Treasure Fleets in Modern China - English
• Admiral Zheng He's Voyages - English
• The Mystery of Zheng He's Boat - English
• Longjiang Chuanchang - Chinese

Coordinates: 32 ° 3 ′ 43 ″  N , 118 ° 43 ′ 39 ″  E