【著者简介】 杰弗里•帕克教授是英国当代著名的地缘政治学家和军事史学家，现任美国俄亥俄州立大学安德烈亚斯•多帕伦欧洲史教授、莫尚国际安全研究中心成员，英国学术院和西班牙皇家历史学院院士，曾获得2012年喜力历史奖，2014年凭《全球危机》获得英国学术院奖章。曾主编《剑桥战争史》，另著有《菲利普二世的大战略》《皇帝：查理五世传》《菲利普二世传》等。 【译者简介】 廖平，英国牛津大学沃尔夫森学院历史学博士，现任职于安徽师范大学历史学院，从事近代早期英国史、欧洲军事史研究，出版有《英国故事：从11世纪到脱欧动荡，千年历史的四重变奏》《安妮女王时代的英格兰（第二卷）》《复辟：查理二世和他的王国》等译著。

孟德卫（David E. Mungello） 美国汉学家。出生于1943年，1973年获得加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校博士学位。现为贝勒大学（Baylor University）历史与亚洲研究教授。 另著有《莱布尼兹和儒学》（Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord）、《神奇的土地：耶稣会士的调适策略和汉学的起源》(Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology)、《被遗忘的杭州基督徒》（The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou）、《灵肉之争中的山东（1650-1785）》（The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650–1785）等。

D.E. Mungello is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

For too long, the history of contact between China and the West has been portrayed as a one-sided encounter: Europeans were said to have "discovered" China, while Chinese responses to the West went largely unnoticed. In this book, D.E. Mungello dispels the myth that China was a silent partner in the dialogue between Eastern and Western civilizations. Although they did not recip...(展开全部)

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 answ...(展开全部)

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 answ...(展开全部)

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 answ...(展开全部)

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 answ...(展开全部)