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  • The Gunpowder Age
    Tonio Andrade
    A first look at gunpowder’s revolutionary impact on China’s role in global historyThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–4...
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  • Lost Colony
    Tonio Andrade
    How a Chinese pirate defeated European colonialists and won Taiwan during the seventeenth centuryDuring the seventeenth century, Holland created the world’s most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War-Europe’s first war with China-the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Ko...
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