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- Influence
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
- Timothy Brook
- History
- 18 May 1998
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… Expand
The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking
- Timothy Brook
- History
- 1 August 2001
The japanese assault on the city of nanking in December 1937 was one of many incidents that the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE, 1946–48) examined in the course of judging the… Expand
Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
- Timothy Brook
- Geography
- 2005
Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unknowledged. This text breaks… Expand
Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China
- Timothy Brook
- History
- 1 February 1994
In 17th and 18th century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations As gentry numbers grew faster than the imperial bureaucracy, traditional Confucian… Expand
Mr Selden's map of China : the spice trade, a lost chart and the South China Sea
- Timothy Brook
- Geography
- 2013
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's… Expand
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Civil Society in China
- Timothy Brook, B. M. Frolic
- Political Science
- 1997
The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes… Expand
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Timothy Brook
- Art
- 26 December 2007
From the epicentre of Delft in the Netherlands, Brook takes the paintings of Johannes Vermeer and uses details of them as a series of entry points to the widest circles of world trade and cultural… Expand
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Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries)
- Timothy Brook, L. Chia
- History
- 1 December 2003
From the 11th through the 17th centuries, the publishers of Jianyang in Fujian province played a conspicuous role in the Chinese book trade. Unlike the products of government and educational presses,… Expand