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.
發表於2024-05-16
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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 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...
評分加拿大學者寫的一本關於中國明代商業與文化的書。 這本書的寫法比較特彆,作者把全書分為四個部分:鼕、春、夏、鞦。鼕代錶安靜和靜謐,是晚明時期一個作者(也是貫穿本書的重要人物)對明初迴憶時的想法。本書從這位晚明作者的感受開始,結閤浩如煙海的史料,尤其是大量的地...
圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 曆史 蔔正民 漢學 縱樂的睏惑 明朝 History Ming
market economy,"failed" capitalism,gentry identity evolution
評分作者說此書是寫《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。
評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。
評分以前一直以為這本書叫Confucius of Pleasure =.= 這本明史很有意思 開的角度很小 看起來輕鬆多瞭..原來還被三聯翻譯成《縱樂的睏惑:明代的商業與文化》過,讀到後麵覺得有點disorder,扣一星
評分Simmel on fashion
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