Brook, Timothy,  1951- <br/><br/>
The confusions of pleasure :  commerce and culture in Ming China / 
Timothy Brook. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c1998. 
 - xxv, 320 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-311) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : seasons of the Ming (1609) -- Dramtis personae -- Winter : the first century (1368-1450) -- Spring : the middle century (1450-1550) -- Summer : the last century (1550-1644) -- Fall : the lord of silver (1642-1644). 
<br/><br/> The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the centre of the world. The author examines the changing landscape of life over the three centuries of Ming (1368-1644). 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520210913 (alk. paper) 9780520210912 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97008838  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ming-dynastie.<br/>Handel.<br/>Materiële cultuur.<br/>Culture matérielle--Histoire.--Chine<br/>Commerçants--Histoire.--Chine<br/>Commerce--Histoire.--Chine<br/>Mingdynastie<br/>Geschichte.<br/>Geschichte (1368-1644)<br/>Handel<br/>Geschichte 1368-1644.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.<br/>China--Commerce--History.<br/>China--Comercio--Historia.<br/>Chine--Vie intellectuelle.<br/>Chine--Conditions économiques--Jusqu'à 1644.<br/>Chine--Conditions sociales--960-1644.<br/>Chine--1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming).<br/>China
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS753  / .B76 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>951/.026