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).
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.
读该书并没有想好自己需要什么,是通读细读整理逻辑,还是仅做简单过眼?然而,我对此类知识并不敏感,细读整理时间也不够,只能在第一遍通览下找出可进一步深入了解的要点和学习方法。除此之外,本书最大特点是—材料基本出自各个地方的地方县志、府志,正如他序里说的“我自...
评分其实一直想先看《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 评分《纵乐的困惑:明代的商业与文化》, 从一块明砖开始的描述 加拿大籍历史学家卜正民(Timothy Brook)对中国明代的商业与文化史描述,是从南京老城墙上的一块砖开始的,那砖上烧刻有当时窑工的姓字。但那块砖至今还镶嵌在那里,历史学家也无法取下来,于是就开始...
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~
评分作者说此书是写《剑桥中国史》的余料而成。确实像写通史的那种感觉,趣味有深度就欠缺了。
评分老师真的很帅啊……又很会说故事~具体参见范金民和其学生的书评~
评分Brook的文筆和視野 比起Craig不知道高到哪裡去了
评分挺好的一本本科课本。现如今把故事讲的好的史家其实不多
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