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.
“商业到底有没有从根本上改变大众和个人生活的行为方式呢?是不是这些改变引起了明后期中国所面临的明显的危机?或许恰是流动和商业,通过扩展社会生活的范围而不是从根本上改变它的构造,保证了由士绅控制的世界能够团结一致,即使在王朝分崩离析的时候。” Timothy...
评分明代有时候感觉很近,但有时候却感觉很远。“明清”几乎成为现今人尽皆知的时代名词,几乎所有人都能如数家珍般列举出一些这个时代的历史大事件,但是如果再细致一点追问的话,那么几乎所有人都会感到困惑。明代是世界近代史的开端,但是明初却离我们已近700年,这700年的跨度...
评分 评分 评分Brook的文筆和視野 比起Craig不知道高到哪裡去了
评分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~
评分超棒的视角
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
评分问世间情为何物。马克思主义者的学术巅峰就是Tim brooke了
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