LK Chen Double Dragon Sui Dao Review 正楷双龙隋刀评测 

Their castings are garbage anyway. Blades are probably where they put their effort

It is a cavalry blade, never quite intended to be used by infantry

are there any anti-armor weapons? Except for stabbing, I don't know if cutting will ever work against a properly made armor. I know there are records there are spots the swords were used against, for example, the hands, the horses' legs, etc.

@@dongf2618 Yeah, I don't think that cutting through metal lamellar is viable. I made a video about the LK Chen Song Hand Dao and in it I mention some anti-armor weapons like the mace 骨朵, iron whip 鐡鞭, and estoc 鐧 which I think take the place of any "anti-armor" sword. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q2wCw8kIHyI.html

Not really but there are fair lot more people having adverse reaction to Nickel than Brass or Bronze.

Same cost

I suspect this isn't even good brass though. Look for reviews where it breaks

Could you explain how the fall of the Qing was one of the times Chinese civilization nearly ended? Wasn't this an ethnic Manchu dynasty that fell to an ethnic Han Chinese revolution?

The Qing Dynasty ended due to the Xinhai Revolution, true. But the country was still balkanised, with the European powers & Americans fighting to expand their colonial possessions in China and the Japanese desiring its own colonial empire began annexing even bigger parts of Chinese territory. The former Generals of Qing became warlords and started carving their own mini fiefdoms in Chinese territory. Provinces became nearly autonomous in all matters and making their own policies outside of the Nationalist Government. During that time, the push towards 'Westernisation' began and Chinese customs, philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism etc.)and culture became discarded and frowned upon as backward, worthless and superstitious. Chinese civilisation was nearly completely abandoned in the desperate race to catch up with the Western colonial powers & Imperial Japan. Now, couple that with Massive corruption, sky-high opium addiction rates, exploding crime rates, criminal organisations& bandits terrorising entire communities, unprecedented natural disasters and the state being utterly helpless and unable to defend itself against both foreign predation & its own resentful populace, it would come as no surprise that it would explode into an all-out Civil War. While this is happening, Imperial Japan began its imperialist expansion and sparked off the insanely bloody 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Hence, why the period during and after the Fall of Qing was viewed as a near-end for Chinese civilisation.

its getting an anime adaptatiooooon