Tonio Andrade

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,^[1] he is a professor of history at Emory University.

Tonio Andrade is the son of material scientist J. D. Andrade^[2][3] 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^[4] 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.^[5]

In 2012 Andrade received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the military history of the Yuan and Ming dynasties and the development of gunpowder weaponry.^[4]

• 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.^[6][7]
• The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. Princeton University Press, 2016.^[8][9]
• 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.

• Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries
• Victor Lieberman
• Maritime Silk Road
• Nanban trade
• Taiwan under Qing rule

• Official website
• Academic Profile
• China Center Profile
• New York Review of Books Page