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中國和歐洲強權勢均力敵的狀態為何被打破，就此進入武力上的「大分流時代」？ 挑戰傳統軍事史觀 引發學界熱議論戰漢學大師歐陽泰 改寫中西軍事革新史的關鍵之作 「中國發明了火藥、槍砲與炸彈，但何以西方人會在十九世紀超越、擊敗並且羞辱了中國？」——賈德‧戴蒙，《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》、《大崩壞》作者 ——軍事科技史上最令人費解的歷史謎團——中國人發明了火藥，卻是由西方人主宰近代世界版圖

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, 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,

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 behi