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  • - China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
    by Timothy Brook
    £18.49

    The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders replaced the Ming dynasty. This title explores what happened to China between these two invasions.

  • - The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement
    by Timothy Brook
    £19.49

    This is a reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in Beijing during the previous weeks that largely precipitated the massacre. The book focuses on the army which had always prided itself on its close ties to the civilian population.

  • - China and the World
    by Timothy Brook
    £10.99 - 23.49

  • - Asian International Relations Since Chinggis Khan
    by Timothy Brook, Michael Van Walt Van Praag & Miek Boltjes
    £75.99

  • by Timothy Brook
    £159.99

  • - Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China
    by Timothy Brook
    £30.49

    Timothy Brook studies three widely separated and economically dissimilar counties. He draws on rich data in monastic gazetteers to examine the patterns and social consequences of patronage.

  • by B. Michael Frolic & Timothy Brook
    £41.99 - 123.99

    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 elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China.

  • - Asian Elites and National Identities
    by Timothy Brook
    £25.99

  • - The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
    by Timothy Brook
    £10.99

  • by Timothy Brook
    £57.49 - 123.99

    The Ming dynasty era (1368-1644) saw the development of a relationship between the state and society that continues in China today. Brook argues that this was in response to changes in commercial relations and social networks, which created a stable society and a corresponding 'demand' for a stable government.

  • - The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
    by Timothy Brook
    £10.99

    Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.

  • by Timothy Brook
    £29.99

    In Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin became one of the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi, called by Western observers "death by a thousand cuts." This is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the 10th century until lingchi's abolition in 1905.

  • - Commerce and Culture in Ming China
    by Timothy Brook
    £20.99

    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 realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status.The Confusions of Pleasure marks a significant departure from the conventional ways in which Chinese history has been written. Rather than recounting the Ming dynasty in a series of political events and philosophical achievements, it narrates this longue duree in terms of the habits and strains of everyday life. Peppered with stories of real people and their negotiations of a rapidly changing world, this book provides a new way of seeing the Ming dynasty that not only contributes to the scholarly understanding of the period but also provides an entertaining and accessible introduction to Chinese history for anyone.

  • - Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
    by Timothy Brook
    £23.99

    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 unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers.

  • - The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia
    by Timothy Brook
    £26.99

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