{"id":27454,"date":"2025-07-26T07:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/qa-chinese-small-arms-w-jason-clower-from-type-56-the-story-of-chinas-army\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:27:30","slug":"qa-chinese-small-arms-w-jason-clower-from-type-56-the-story-of-chinas-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/qa-chinese-small-arms-w-jason-clower-from-type-56-the-story-of-chinas-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Chinese Small Arms w\/ Jason Clower from Type 56: The Story of China&#8217;s Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/051A-rPvqdI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>My book &#8220;Pistols of the Warlords&#8221; is available through Headstamp Publishing:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/chinese-pistols\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/chinese-pistols<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I am very happy to welcome Jason Clower as our Q&#038;A guest. Jason runs the channel @Type56_Ordnance_Dept &#8220;Type 56: The Story of China&#8217;s Army&#8221; where he teaches the history of the PLA and its small arms, combat tactics, strategy, and logistics to a depth found nowhere else in the English-speaking internet. So naturally, today&#8217;s questions are based on Chinese small arms history&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>0:01:00 &#8211; The PLA and the bayonet.<br \/>0:08:00 &#8211; How did the Great Depression impact Chinese arms production?<br \/>0:14:03 &#8211; Was the Type 63 abandoned before or during the Cultural Revolution?<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Deadly Self-Sniper Rifle, the Type 63: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R6RqP1Wb2IQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/R6RqP1Wb2IQ<\/a><br \/>China\u2019s Type 63 Rifle: Better Than an AK-47 and SKS Combined?: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_-6_VXjMSoc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/_-6_VXjMSoc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:16:49 &#8211; Has China just copied guns for the past 100 years or did they develop their own things?<br \/>0:23:55 &#8211; How does Chinese production quality compare to Eastern bloc nations?<br \/>0:29:15 &#8211; Different arms for Chiang Kai-shek and Mao?<br \/>0:34:46 &#8211; If Jason could have one Chinese gun, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p>Chinese FN 1900s: From Wauser to Browningsbrowningsbrownings: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/u0dInANbfDU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/u0dInANbfDU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:37:02 &#8211; What about the SKS-M with its detachable AK magazine?<br \/>0:41:45 &#8211; How did it go from Cultural Revolution to massive SKS sales to Western consumers?<br \/>0:48:21 &#8211; Could the Type 79 have been successful as a concept?<\/p>\n<p>Curse of China\u2019s Type 79: The Gun That Blighted Every Life It Touched: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bNOFa5__QJM\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/bNOFa5__QJM<\/a><br \/>Type 79 SMG: China&#8217;s MP7 At Home: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dWIbsLxqBPc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/dWIbsLxqBPc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:53:18 &#8211; Allocating leftover Civil War era guns to the militia vs to foreign military allies<br \/>0:58:56 &#8211; Did any modernizers survive Mao&#8217;s purges?<br \/>1:03:15 &#8211; Why are all the guns &#8220;Type 56&#8221;?<br \/>1:06:24 &#8211; What&#8217;s the &#8220;Q&#8221; designation all about?<br \/>1:07:15 &#8211; When did China develop a unique national identity in its small arms?<br \/>1:09:36 &#8211; Chinese RPD use<br \/>1:13:55 &#8211; Jason&#8217;s background <\/p>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book &#8220;Pistols of the Warlords&#8221; is available through Headstamp Publishing:https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/chinese-pistols Today I am very happy to welcome Jason Clower as our Q&#038;A guest. Jason runs the channel @Type56_Ordnance_Dept &#8220;Type 56: The Story of China&#8217;s Army&#8221; where he teaches the history of the PLA and its small arms, combat tactics, strategy, and logistics to a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/qa-chinese-small-arms-w-jason-clower-from-type-56-the-story-of-chinas-army\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&#038;A: Chinese Small Arms w\/ Jason Clower from Type 56: The Story of China&#8217;s Army<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}