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.
眾所周知,儒傢一直提倡“農為本,商為末”“農業是樹乾,商業是枝葉”“崇本抑末”,因為在儒傢的觀念裏,商業就是把A的錢賺到B的荷包裏,交易過程中沒有發生財富增殖。然而實際上,正是流通和流動的過程纔是財富增殖的過程,隻要有瞭流動性,哪怕是垃圾也能是財富(比如以前...
評分我認為最能反映一個王朝的興衰是生活在王朝中的平民百姓或是小人物的生活經曆。而加拿大漢學傢-蔔正民以獨特的明朝百姓的生活視角敘述和揭示明朝的商業和文化的發展。有彆與其他明朝研究著作對大人物的研究,小人物的研究更能讓人感同身受。 “理想國度“ 洪武帝-硃元璋滅瞭元...
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...
評分中國“傳統的”曆史敘述認為,明中葉的中國經曆瞭一次“商業革命”。在新中國建立以後,明清“資本主義萌芽”問題為學界高度重視,和其他四個問題並稱為曆史研究的“五朵金花”,並最終被定為官方論斷。盡管“資本主義萌芽”已經被認為是一個不符閤曆史真相的僞命題,然而我們...
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...
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。
评分挺好的一本本科課本。現如今把故事講的好的史傢其實不多
评分Simmel on fashion
评分超棒的視角
评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
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