January 2009 (UTC) 

 :::Dear , 
 :::Lung Chang is .  Somewhere or other I've got a short biography of him, which I'll try to locate and let you have.  Here's my English translation of what he says on page 329 of his book about the Pescadores campaign (the second half of a single paragraph in a book 377 pages long): 
 Courbet was impatient with the campaign in Formosa, where the French expeditionary corps found attacking and defending both difficult, and was anxious to seize the Pescadores island group.  He therefore summoned Lespès to Chen-hai Bay [Ningbo] to maintain the blockade, while he himself led a flotilla to the Pescadores.  Meanwhile a naval division of eight ships under the command of Rear Admiral Rieunier, sent earlier by the French government,  arrived in the China Seas.  On 28 March Courbet arrived off the Pescadores with five warships.  The islands were defended by the generals Chou Shan-ch’u and Cheng Ying-chieh.   On 29 March the French squadron bombarded the Chinese defences.  French troops landed on P’eng-hu Island on the following day and captured Makung.  According to French sources, French casualties were only 5 dead and 12 wounded.  The officials on the Pescadores put Chinese casualties at over 300 dead and 400 wounded.  Chou Shan-ch’u and his fellow commanders withdrew to defend the Formosan mainland.  However, the mood in Paris at this time was unsettled due to the French reverses at Chen-nan-kuan and Lang Son, and Courbet’s victory in the Pescadores went almost unnoticed. 

  
 Lung Chang's footnote to this paragraph, most of which deals with events in Zhenhai Bay near Ningbo, contains only one sentence relevant to the Pescadores campaign: 
 On 27 July 1885 the Ch’ing court relieved Chou Shan-ch'u and his colleague of their commands for their unsuccessful defence of the Pescadores, and posted them to Heilungkiang to expiate their offences.  The other civil and military officials concerned were also punished (Ch’ing-te chung-shih-lu, chuan 210). 

  
 I've not yet checked this reference, but I have no reason to doubt that Lung Chang has reported it accurately. 

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