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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1105–1106.
Published: 01 November 2016
...David Fedman The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History . By Tonio Andrade . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2016 . 448 pp. ISBN: 9781400874446 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 155–184.
Published: 01 February 1964
...H. G. Creel Abstract Accounts of China's contributions to world culture have progessed far beyond the “paper and gunpowder” stage, but even today they seldom emphasize the Chinese role in developing techniques essential to what is known as “the modern, centralized, bureaucratic state...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 759–761.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... The nascent, Andrade-labeled “Chinese Military Revolution School” argues that a “military revolution” first took place in China and that Ming China was the first “gunpowder empire” in world history; subsequent advanced European gunpowder technology merely expanded options for the Chinese. Andrade emphasizes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1113–1114.
Published: 01 November 2018
... chapters. Two topics are taken up: the introduction of gunpowder technology into the region and the symbolic use of major gateways by rulers. Although it is well-argued, chapter 7, on gunpowder technology, is the book's weakest chapter. More attention needs to be given to the effectiveness of plunging fire...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (2): 176–187.
Published: 01 February 1948
... a special anthropological study of the Mangyan people on Mindoro. Professor Feng Chia-sheng is Research Professor of History and Anthropology in the Institute of Historical Studies and Archeology at the National Academy of Peiping. His present research is in two fields. One is "The origin of gunpowder...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 February 2024
...” in the formation of early modern states and empires. To be sure, the early modernists Sun Laichen and Jurre Knoest have begun to address these issues. Focusing on the materiality of gunpowder warfare—for example, guns, gunpowder, and their ingredients (such as copper, iron, saltpeter, and sulfur)—Sun ( 2013...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 442–444.
Published: 01 February 1985
... gunsmiths and artillerymen to manufacture their weapons and train their infantry. Indian gunpowder was always inferior, and gunpowder came increasingly to be imported. Mughal rejection of the printing press, the mechanical clock, and English textile technology is described in detail. Qaisar's discussion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 442.
Published: 01 February 1985
... accepted European pistols and muskets, and they imported gunsmiths and artillerymen to manufacture their weapons and train their infantry. Indian gunpowder was always inferior, and gunpowder came increasingly to be imported. Mughal rejection of the printing press, the mechanical clock, and English textile...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 369–373.
Published: 01 May 2018
... centralized militaries, more powerful gunpowder weapons, heavier fortifications, and more ships. Lee shows that these developments put the same pressures on forests in the Korean peninsula that they placed on woodlands elsewhere. As alarming scarcities of wood loomed in the wake of the costly and destructive...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 505.
Published: 01 August 1960
.... Some of the diffi- have drenched Sirajuddaullah's gunpowder culties in identifying the author Wood with since his forces were camped in the open. On the future Colonel Wood have already been the other hand, under the protection of the mentioned by the commentators {ibid., pp. Mango grove, even a sixty...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 610–611.
Published: 01 May 2011
... insurgency is strong and well established. But where did the gunpowder come from? And what was the fuel that kept the fire burning? The author does not weigh up the international considerations—the support from Pakistan and the Sikh diaspora, for example. He quickly passes over the peculiar historical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 870–873.
Published: 01 August 1971
... between early science and technology, e. g., the contributions of alchemists to the discovery of gunpowder. But on the whole this lumping together tends to encourage overextension of generalizations. The evidence for medieval superiority, for instance, comes from technology. Whether the state of the exact...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 51–75.
Published: 01 February 2020
..., Hanwha developed as a prominent arms producer for Yulgok Operation (1974–81), Park's independent military modernization program to develop advanced weapons banned by the US. 27 Under Yulgok, Hanwha's primary task was to produce smokeless powder, the basic gunpowder used in ammunition for M-1 rifles...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1111–1112.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the spadework for future crops of questions that may not yet even have occurred to us. There are a few minor bones one might pick with Lorge. He perpetuates the improper use of “fire” by other scholars as a verb to launch projectiles from non-gunpowder weapons. An archer does not “fire” an arrow (p. 43); he...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 702–703.
Published: 01 August 2013
... pragmatic knowledge for those living along the Yangzi River. So was understanding whence pearls and jade, coal and charcoal, saltpeter and sulfur came, or how artisans made dyes and paints, processed salt, sesame oil, and gunpowder, and produced fine silks and elegant porcelains. These were among...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1145–1146.
Published: 01 November 2007
... effectiveness of gunpowder weapons, both artillery and small arms), but also their confusing and discontinuous action has the ring of authenticity and provides a striking contrast to the often trite and stratagem-centered battle narratives in the official histories. The diary is also interesting for what...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1222–1224.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of historical figures. In chapter 3, Sun Laichen argues that Đại Việt acquired gunpowder technology from the Ming dynasty in the fourteenth century and then developed innovations that were exported back to China and played a significant role in Đại Việt's late fifteenth-century expansion and defeat of Champa...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 1033–1034.
Published: 01 November 2000
..., diversify and support industries new (sugar, eggs, gunpowder) and old (paper). The amount of extra levies was gradually reduced from 45 percent of income after taxes in the 1770s to 10 percent in the 1820s. The practice was finally abolished in 1839- The domain was also politically successful in halving...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 1995
... by what it learned from other, more advanced cultures at least until Europe overtook and subdued them" (p. 75). McNeill highlights the role of gunpowder in this process of learning and subdual, but also recognizes that the "wealth garnered from overseas 163 164 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES trade enhanced...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 689–690.
Published: 01 August 1989
... resistance to the Japanese during World War II, with homemade gunpowder and bullets, brought an increased feeling of nationalistic pride. The final chapters stress the variety of adaptations that have occurred in the encounters of the Zo people in Burma, India, and Bangladesh. Evident is the common central...
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