The Confusions of Pleasure

Commerce and Culture in Ming China

By:

Timothy Brook

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Paperback / softback

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The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the centre 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 narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries of Ming (1368-1644), when China was transformed from a closely administered agrarian realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status. Rather than recounting the Ming dynasty in a series of political events and philosophical achievements, it narrates this longue duree 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 way of seeing the Ming dynasty that not only contributes to the scholarly understanding of the period but also provides an accessible introduction to Chinese history for anyone.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

September 1st, 1999

Author

Timothy Brook

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

38 b-w illustrations, 4 maps, 1 table

Pages

345

Dimensions

152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780520221543

Product ID

3604385

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