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.
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...
評分游园推荐,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...
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。。。
评分作者說此書是寫《劍橋中國史》的餘料而成。確實像寫通史的那種感覺,趣味有深度就欠缺瞭。
评分老師真的很帥啊……又很會說故事~具體參見範金民和其學生的書評~
评分作者說此書是寫《劍橋中國史》的餘料而成。確實像寫通史的那種感覺,趣味有深度就欠缺瞭。
评分很想擁有一本英文原著噻哈 喜歡! 磚匠的那節,腦洞真是很大~
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