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The confusions of pleasure: commerce and culture in Ming China

Timothy Brook
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • A Ming Chronology (page xix)
  • A Genealogy of Ming Emperors (page xxiii)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xxv)
  • Introduction: Seasons of the Ming (1609) (page 1)
  • Dramatis Personae (page 15)
  • Winter: The First Century (1368-1450) (page 17)
    • A Brick in the Wall (page 19)
    • The Burden of Communication (page 30)
    • Ideas into Texts (page 56)
    • Economy and Exchange (page 65)
    • The Distance between Rich and Poor (page 79)
  • Spring: The Middle Century (1450-1550) (page 86)
    • The Center Recedes (page 87)
    • State and Market (page 101)
    • Commerce (page 112)
    • Commerce and Culture (page 124)
    • The Zhengde Decay (page 139)
  • Summer: The Last Century (1550-1644) (page 153)
    • The God of Copper Cash (page 154)
    • Travels and Letters (page 173)
    • Consumption and Production (page 190)
    • Trade (page 204)
    • Fashion (page 218)
  • Fall: The Lord of Silver (1642-1644) (page 238)
    • The Fall of the Ming (page 240)
    • Last Glimpses (page 253)
  • Notes (page 263)
  • Bibliography (page 295)
  • Glossary and Index (page 313)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JIH 30.3 (Winter. 1999): 562-563 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/15852
CRI 6.1 (Spring. 1999): 54-56 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/396890
CQ 156 (Dec. 1998): 1065-1066 http://www.jstor.org/stable/656151
PA 72.2 (Summer. 1999): 267-268 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2672136
BSOAS 63.2 (2000): 311-312 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1559566
SCJ 33.2 (Summer. 2002): 587-588 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4143992
JEH 59.4 (Dec. 1999): 1106-1107 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2566705
RPol 61.3 (Summer. 1999): 568-569 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1408482
JESHO 43.2 (2000): 213-215 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3632500
JAS 58.2 (May. 1999): 479-481 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2659423
TP 88. 1/3 (2002): 151-169 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4528894
AHR 104.3 (Jun. 1999): 876-877 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2651002
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Published: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520924079 (ebook)
  • 9780520221543 (paper)
  • 9780520210912 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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