Tonio Adam Andrade (born 1968) is an American military historian and sinologist. A historian of East Asia and the history of East Asian trading networks, he is a professor of history at Emory University.
Biography Tonio Andrade is the son of material scientist J. D. Andrade and grew up in Salt Lake City. He earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology at Reed College, and went on to study history at Yale University where he had Jonathan Spence as a dissertation advisor. He became interested in the history of China as an undergraduate student and began studying the language at that time.
In 2012 Andrade received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the military history of the Yuan and Ming dynasties and the development of gunpowder weaponry.
Bibliography Commerce, Culture, and Conflict: Taiwan Under European Rule, 1624–1662. Yale University Press, 2000. How Taiwan became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century. Columbia University Press, 2008. The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History: Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker. Ashgate Publishing, 2013. Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West. Princeton University Press, 2013. The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. Princeton University Press, 2016. Early Modern East Asia: War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange. Routledge, 2018. Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700. University of Hawaii Press, 2019. The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China. Princeton University Press, 2021.
See also Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries Victor Lieberman Maritime Silk Road Nanban trade Taiwan under Qing rule
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Academic Profile China Center Profile New York Review of Books Page