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.
游园推荐,明史佳作!读毕: 纵乐的困惑:明代的商业与文化 (加)卜正民/2004-01/三联书店/ 20.00/平装/ 方骏 每一个历史学家都是从现在反思过去,也即每一本史书都是一本当代史!历史的阅读除了猎奇而更多是以求清楚自己从哪里来的问题! 正如卜正民在序言中所写:“中国的...
評分《纵乐的困惑》是一本描述正在发生巨大商业变化的国度的文化史,主题是在中国历史中的某个“长时段”( longue duree)里财富所带来的快乐及其所触发的困惑。卜正民借用晚明的歙县县令张涛(湖北黄陂人,ps,最近看的好多历史里都有湖北人的出现)《歙县志》中的四季循环的比喻...
評分 評分《纵乐的困惑》是一本描述正在发生巨大商业变化的国度的文化史,主题是在中国历史中的某个“长时段”( longue duree)里财富所带来的快乐及其所触发的困惑。卜正民借用晚明的歙县县令张涛(湖北黄陂人,ps,最近看的好多历史里都有湖北人的出现)《歙县志》中的四季循环的比喻...
評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...
老師真的很帥啊……又很會說故事~具體參見範金民和其學生的書評~
评分Brook的文筆和視野 比起Craig不知道高到哪裡去瞭
评分讀來大爽,簡直茅塞頓開。從Nostalgic scholar到excluded merchant到benefited gentry,不同的視野構成一幅較為完整的明朝經濟圖像。隻是徽商一會兒因為這個被鄙視,一會兒因為那個被鄙視。。。真是殘念。。。
评分以前一直以為這本書叫Confucius of Pleasure =.= 這本明史很有意思 開的角度很小 看起來輕鬆多瞭..原來還被三聯翻譯成《縱樂的睏惑:明代的商業與文化》過,讀到後麵覺得有點disorder,扣一星
评分Brook的文筆和視野 比起Craig不知道高到哪裡去瞭
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