"Lost Colony" (Tonio Andrade) Book Trailer

Tonio Andrade, associate professor of history at Emory University, describes his new book, "Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West" (Princeton University Press, 2011).

During 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 Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and captured one of their largest and richest colonies--Taiwan. How did he do it? Examining the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, Lost Colony provides a balanced new perspective on long-held assumptions about Western power, Chinese might, and the nature of war.

From the book jacket: "You can read this book as an exciting novel full of pirates, swashbuckling characters, beheadings, treachery, and battles on land and sea--a novel that just happens to be true--or as a revelatory look at the little-known first war between China and the West, and window into one of the biggest unsolved questions of world history: why Europe rather than China colonized the world from the time of Columbus onward. Either way, you will be sorry when you reach the last page." --Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse"

For more information on the book, see http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9525.html

http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/andrade.html

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Education

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• Emory University
• Emory College
• History Department
• Koxinga
• Taiwan
• Dutch East Indies Company
• Sino-Dutch War

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I have the book! I'm halfway and it stays entertaining and educational as well:)