Tonio Andrade

• Chinese history
• early-modern global history

Tonio Andrade
Born	Tonio Adam Andrade 1968 (age 57–58)
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship
Academic background
Alma mater	Reed College University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Yale University
Doctoral advisor	Geoffrey Parker and Jonathan D. Spence
Institutions	College at Brockport, State University of New York Emory University
Website	tonioandrade.com

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.

Biography

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]

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. ^{[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.

See also

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

References

1. "Emory University".
2. "Tonio Andrade on The Last Embassy | Princeton University Press". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
3. Andrade, Joe (2019-01-16). "Joe Who? Archives" . Retrieved 2026-01-09.
4. "Tonio Andrade, Guggenheim Fellowships". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
5. Ross, John Grant (22 June 2018). "Author Interview: Tonio Andrade". Bookish Asia. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
6. "The American Historical Review".
7. "Publishers Weekly- Review".
8. "Review: The Gunpowder Age". www.kirkusreviews.com.
9. "South China Morning Post- Review". www.scmp.com. 7 January 2016.

External links

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