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The 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 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind?
Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s—much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China—like Europe—was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world’s great military powers.
By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.
作者简介:
Tonio Andrade is professor of history at Emory University and the author of Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West (Princeton) and How Taiwan Became Chinese.
Introduction – The Military Pattern of the Chinese Past 1
PART I: CHINESE BEGINNINGS
Chapter 1 The Crucible: The Song Warring States Period 15
Chapter 2 Early Gunpowder Warfare 29
Chapter 3 The Mongol Wars and the Evolution of the Gun 44
Chapter 4 Great Martiality: The Gunpowder Emperor 55
PART II: EUROPE GETS THE GUN
Chapter 5 The Medieval Gun 75
Chapter 6 Big Guns: Why Western Europe and Not China Developed Gunpowder Artillery 88
Chapter 7 The Development of the Classic Gun in Europe 103
Chapter 8 The Gunpowder Age in Europe 115
Chapter 9 Cannibals with Cannons: The Sino-Portuguese Clashes of 1521-1522 124
PART III: AN AGE OF PARITY
Chapter 10 The Frankish Cannon 135
Chapter 11 Drill, Discipline, and the Rise of the West 144
Chapter 12 The Musket in East Asia 166
Chapter 13 The Seventeenth Century: An Age of Parity? 188
Chapter 14 A European Naval Advantage 196
Chapter 15 The Renaissance Fortress: An Agent of European Expansion? 211
PART IV: THE GREAT MILITARY DIVERGENCE
Chapter 16 The Opium War and the Great Divergence 237
Chapter 17 A Modernizing Moment: Opium War Reforms 257
Chapter 18 China’s Modernization and the End of the Gunpowder Age 273
Conclusions – A New Warring States Period? 297
Acknowledgments 307
Appendix 1: Timeline 311
Appendix 2: Datasets 312
Abbreviations 317
Notes 319
Bibliography 379
Index 421
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历史学家习惯批评“儒家思维”。约翰·罗林森提供了英语世界最有洞见的观点，虽然他的解释略有不同，但他也认为最大的阻碍是儒家文化：“中国不是没有足够的资金支持试验开支，也不是缺少技术条件。…主要问题是官员们对试验的抵触。”他写道，儒家价值观过于关注道德层面，正直的官员轻视工艺、战术和技术。“外国人的技术思维，比如蒸汽战船中的技术思维，是被看不起的。”罗林森在1967年发表了这番言论那时人们普遍接受的观点是儒家文化导致了中国现代化失败。20世纪70-80年代，此类正统观点才在中国学者中松动。
儒家文化并未阻止林则徐和魏源对外国工艺和科技产生兴趣，这点毫无疑问；我们在本书中也看到了其他儒家官员毫无负担地以外国技术解决问题。所以如果说儒家文化是改革的桎桔，那也是弱的桎梏，并不比基督教对于西方科技的影响更大，也比不上欧洲贵族传统对于武装枪炮的影响。再者，儒家流派繁多，更不必说中国文化长河中浩若繁星的其他哲学和意识形态了。拿魏源来说，虽然他是儒家学者，但受到今文经学一派经世思想的强烈影响，这一派思想有中国传统法家的源流，视治国术以财政、权谋，而不单是道德。 (查看原文)
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