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2024-11-05
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《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
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評分翻書。文筆太棒瞭!
評分翻書。文筆太棒瞭!
評分讀來大爽,簡直茅塞頓開。從Nostalgic scholar到excluded merchant到benefited gentry,不同的視野構成一幅較為完整的明朝經濟圖像。隻是徽商一會兒因為這個被鄙視,一會兒因為那個被鄙視。。。真是殘念。。。
評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,並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睏惑的結果。此書可以和巫仁恕關於明代消費,柯律格對長物誌的研究和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。
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