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.
其實一直想先看《為權力祈禱—佛教與晚明中國士紳社會的形成》這本書,沒想到先讀瞭《縱樂的睏惑—明代的商業與文化》,兩本書的作者蔔正民(Timothy Brook),加拿大人,1951年生。多倫多大學文學士、哈佛大學文學碩士、哲學博士,長期在多倫多大學教授中國曆史,1997...
評分 評分這是我讀的第二本加拿大漢學傢蔔正民所寫的介紹明朝商業曆史的書籍,第一本是《維米爾的帽子》。還記得讀《維米爾的帽子》時就被書中引人入勝的明朝商業貿易內容和蔔正民嚴謹、客觀卻又不失其流暢的散文式文筆敘述相關曆史的特點所摺服。 正如在這本書中開篇的序言中作者所講的...
評分 評分《縱樂的睏惑》是一本描述正在發生巨大商業變化的國度的文化史,主題是在中國曆史中的某個“長時段”( longue duree)裏財富所帶來的快樂及其所觸發的睏惑。蔔正民藉用晚明的歙縣縣令張濤(湖北黃陂人,ps,最近看的好多曆史裏都有湖北人的齣現)《歙縣誌》中的四季循環的比喻...
問世間情為何物。馬剋思主義者的學術巔峰就是Tim brooke瞭
评分翻書。文筆太棒瞭!
评分一齣精彩的小人物導齣大格局的分析,是一本很好的引導思考的書。但需警惕小人物相對局限的生活場景和地點也十分影響他們的觸覺和生命走嚮。
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~
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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