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![The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China by Timothy Brook](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMkRPVFE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--533e47b2993df95c2affe9f60c8a97c5bdd459f0/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Confusions%20of%20Pleasure-%20Commerce%20and%20Culture%20in%20Ming%20China.jpg)
352 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520221543
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01 September 1999
Description
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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![The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China by Timothy Brook](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMkRPVFE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--533e47b2993df95c2affe9f60c8a97c5bdd459f0/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Confusions%20of%20Pleasure-%20Commerce%20and%20Culture%20in%20Ming%20China.jpg)
352 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520221543
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01 September 1999
Description
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...