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2024-12-22
The Confusions of Pleasure 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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《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...
评分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...
评分读该书并没有想好自己需要什么,是通读细读整理逻辑,还是仅做简单过眼?然而,我对此类知识并不敏感,细读整理时间也不够,只能在第一遍通览下找出可进一步深入了解的要点和学习方法。除此之外,本书最大特点是—材料基本出自各个地方的地方县志、府志,正如他序里说的“我自...
评分图书标签: 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.
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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。
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~
The Confusions of Pleasure 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书