Author: Timothy Brook
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: arbor, paperbacks, ann, nanking, rape, documents
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-12-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0472086626
ISBN-13: 9780472086627

The Japanese Army’s invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. What ended in one atrocity began with another: the savage military takeover of China’s capital city, which quickly became known as the Rape of Nanking. The Japanese Army’s conduct from December 1937 to February 1938 constitutes one of the most barbarous events not just of the war but of the century. The violence was documented at the time and then redocumented during the war crimes trial in Tokyo after the war. T

Authors:Timothy Brook, Timothy Brook,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: china, history, imperial, dynasties, yuan, empire, troubled, ming
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-06-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0674046021
ISBN-13: 9780674046023

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire–a millennium and a half in the making–was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. 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 would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weat

Author: Timothy Brook
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: ming, china, culture, commerce, pleasure, confusions
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520221540
ISBN-13: 9780520221543

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

Author: Timothy Brook
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Keywords: yenching, harvard, institute, monograph, vol, series, china, ming, buddhism, power, formation, gentry, society, praying
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0674697758
ISBN-13: 9780674697751

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 careers were closed to many; but visible philanthropy could publicize elite status outside the state realm. Actively sought by fund-raising abbots, such patronage affected institutional Buddhism. After exploring the relation of Buddhism to Ming Neo-Confucianism, the growth of tourism to Buddhist sites, and the mechanisms and motives for charitable donations, Timothy Brook studies three widely sep

Authors:Dieter Kuhn, Timothy Brook,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: china, history, imperial, transformation, rule, song, confucian
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0674031466
ISBN-13: 9780674031463

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song transformation surpassed. With the chaotic dissolution of the Tang dynasty, the old aristocratic families vanished. A new class of scholar-officials—products of a meritocratic examination system—took up the task of reshaping Chinese tradition by adapting the precep

Authors:Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: capitalism, studies, modern, knowledge, genealogies, historical, china, sinological
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-09-05
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0521525918
ISBN-13: 9780521525916

Until recently, capitalism has been regarded as unique to Europe and as an organic outgrowth of Western civilization. By examining China in these Eurocentric terms, China has been perceived, by Westerners and Asians alike, to be a failed version of the West. The aim of this collaborative project is to examine how the experience of capitalism as a European social formation, and as a world system, has shaped knowledge of China. In addition the volume seeks to establish new foundations on which a theory of Chinese society might be built.

Authors:Timothy Brook, Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: japan, britain, china, regimes, opium
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2000-08-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0520222369
ISBN-13: 9780520222366

Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China. Opium Regimes integrates the pioneering research of sixteen scholars to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well. The book presents a coherent historical arc that moves from British imp