The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China by Timothy Brook

The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China

Timothy Brook

352 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 tr...

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