The Confusions of Pleasure

The Confusions of Pleasure

Commerce and Culture in Ming China

by Timothy Brook

320 pages· 1999· ISBN 9780520221543
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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 duree in terms of the habits and strains of everyday life.

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