The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries of the Ming (1368-1644), when China was transformed from a closely administered agrarian realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status.
The Confusions of Pleasure marks a significant departure from the conventional ways in which Chinese history has been written. Rather than recounting the Ming dynasty in a series of political events and philosophical achievements, it narrates this longue durée in terms of the habits and strains of everyday life. Peppered with stories of real people and their negotiations of a rapidly changing world, this book provides a new way of seeing the Ming dynasty that not only contributes to the scholarly understanding of the period but also provides an entertaining and accessible introduction to Chinese history for anyone.
Timothy Brook is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China (1993), and Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement (1992), and the coeditor of Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities (1999) and China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge (1999).
其实一直想先看《为权力祈祷—佛教与晚明中国士绅社会的形成》这本书,没想到先读了《纵乐的困惑—明代的商业与文化》,两本书的作者卜正民(Timothy Brook),加拿大人,1951年生。多伦多大学文学士、哈佛大学文学硕士、哲学博士,长期在多伦多大学教授中国历史,1997...
评分这是我读的第二本加拿大汉学家卜正民所写的介绍明朝商业历史的书籍,第一本是《维米尔的帽子》。还记得读《维米尔的帽子》时就被书中引人入胜的明朝商业贸易内容和卜正民严谨、客观却又不失其流畅的散文式文笔叙述相关历史的特点所折服。 正如在这本书中开篇的序言中作者所讲的...
评分加拿大学者写的一本关于中国明代商业与文化的书。 这本书的写法比较特别,作者把全书分为四个部分:冬、春、夏、秋。冬代表安静和静谧,是晚明时期一个作者(也是贯穿本书的重要人物)对明初回忆时的想法。本书从这位晚明作者的感受开始,结合浩如烟海的史料,尤其是大量的地...
评分众所周知,儒家一直提倡“农为本,商为末”“农业是树干,商业是枝叶”“崇本抑末”,因为在儒家的观念里,商业就是把A的钱赚到B的荷包里,交易过程中没有发生财富增殖。然而实际上,正是流通和流动的过程才是财富增殖的过程,只要有了流动性,哪怕是垃圾也能是财富(比如以前...
评分中国“传统的”历史叙述认为,明中叶的中国经历了一次“商业革命”。在新中国建立以后,明清“资本主义萌芽”问题为学界高度重视,和其他四个问题并称为历史研究的“五朵金花”,并最终被定为官方论断。尽管“资本主义萌芽”已经被认为是一个不符合历史真相的伪命题,然而我们...
很想拥有一本英文原著噻哈 喜欢! 砖匠的那节,脑洞真是很大~
评分以前一直以为这本书叫Confucius of Pleasure =.= 这本明史很有意思 开的角度很小 看起来轻松多了..原来还被三联翻译成《纵乐的困惑:明代的商业与文化》过,读到后面觉得有点disorder,扣一星
评分market economy,"failed" capitalism,gentry identity evolution
评分翻书。文笔太棒了!
评分以前一直以为这本书叫Confucius of Pleasure =.= 这本明史很有意思 开的角度很小 看起来轻松多了..原来还被三联翻译成《纵乐的困惑:明代的商业与文化》过,读到后面觉得有点disorder,扣一星
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