Middle Kingdom Lost: From the Invention of Gunpowder to the Nanjing Massacre

Middle Kingdom Lost: From the Invention of Gunpowder to the Nanjing Massacre explores one of history's great paradoxes: if China invented gunpowder, firearms, the compass, and many other technologies centuries before the West, how did foreign powers later defeat China using those same innovations? Tracing the development of gunpowder weapons from Tang China to World War II, Nan-Yao Su examines the...