Tonio Andrade

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, he is a professor of history at Emory University.

Biography Tonio Andrade is the son of material scientist J. D. Andrade 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 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.

In 2012 Andrade received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the military history of the Yuan and Ming dynasties and the development of gunpowder weaponry. The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. Princeton University Press, 2016. 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.