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).
发表于2025-03-30
The Confusions of Pleasure 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
1.歐洲人也許已經具備了環航全球的技術能力,但是他們的“貿易”并非建立在市場或國內自身充足生產的基礎上。這種“貿易”依賴掠奪和奴役他人,破壞既有的貿易網絡,以極低價買人金屬、毛皮和香料,然后高價售出。尼可雷想從中國購買物品,但他沒有東西出售,他所能提供的只有...
评分This work is wittily woven together with the four seasons as four chapters, resonating with the rise and fall of the Ming dynasty. It is meant to be a cultural history of the dynasty. To this purpose, it adopts some historical people’s perspective(Dramatis...
评分1.歐洲人也許已經具備了環航全球的技術能力,但是他們的“貿易”并非建立在市場或國內自身充足生產的基礎上。這種“貿易”依賴掠奪和奴役他人,破壞既有的貿易網絡,以極低價買人金屬、毛皮和香料,然后高價售出。尼可雷想從中國購買物品,但他沒有東西出售,他所能提供的只有...
评分我认为最能反映一个王朝的兴衰是生活在王朝中的平民百姓或是小人物的生活经历。而加拿大汉学家-卜正民以独特的明朝百姓的生活视角叙述和揭示明朝的商业和文化的发展。有别与其他明朝研究著作对大人物的研究,小人物的研究更能让人感同身受。 “理想国度“ 洪武帝-朱元璋灭了元...
评分作为美国汉学大家孔飞力的学生,卜正民在研究路径、史料处理、叙述方法上,都颇得老师的真传,不禁让人想起《叫魂》一书。从本书来看,他试图摆脱对历史回顾的姿态,而是从当时一位籍籍无名的官员——张涛的角度,尝试着重新回到彼时的历史情景之中,全面的呈现“明代的商业与...
图书标签: 海外中国研究 历史 卜正民 汉学 纵乐的困惑 明朝 History Ming
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.
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。
评分问世间情为何物。马克思主义者的学术巅峰就是Tim brooke了
评分洪武年間恢復農業秩序緊隨的是明代商業化的開端。生產的過量,并將多餘的生產投入到貿易之後,是經濟的繁榮。而作者所探討的是這個背景下經濟繁榮和社會秩序之間的扭力(tension),即confusion困惑的結果。此書可以和巫仁恕關於明代消費,柯律格對長物志的研究和Jonathan Hay的sensuous surface並列起來讀,以求更全息的視野。此書作者用類似小說的方式來敘述歷史,這不僅是genre的選擇,更關乎歷史敘述是站在何人角度的問題。但歷史的小說和學術之間本身存在一道鴻溝,混雜起來確有些矯作之嫌。
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。
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The Confusions of Pleasure 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书