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The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
Timothy Brook
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| #168246 in Books | imusti | 1999-09-01 | 1999-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.88 x6.00l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 345 pages | University of California Press||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The rich became richer and the poor, poorer|By PBjW|The rise of commerce during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) brought with it the rise of private wealth and the status of merchants. This was quite alarming to many; Confucius had taught that the four classes of society were (from top to bottom): literati, peasants (who earned their high status by farming the land), military, and||"The book looks at changing attitudes to the inter-relationship of commerce and culture or leisure activities over the course of the Ming dynasty. . . . One of the strengths of the book . . . is the way in which much of the story is told through the words of c
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 re...
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