The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China 9780520221543, 0520221540

The confusions of pleasure: commerce and culture in Ming China 9780520924079, 9780520221543, 9780520210912

The Confusions of Pleasure marks a significant departure from the conventional ways in which Chinese history has been wr

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The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China 9780520924079

The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Eur

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The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge 9780231553766

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan

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The Transformation of Yunnan in Ming China 9781000762471

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Community Schools and the State in Ming China 0804751749, 9780804751742

According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empi

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Community Schools and the State in Ming China 9781503625242

According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empi

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Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body 9004429557, 9789004429550

In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.

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Huizhou: Local Identity and Mercantile Lineage Culture in Ming China 9780520385221

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Huizhou studies the constructi

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Merchants' daughters: women, commerce, and regional culture in south China 9789888083480, 9789882207189, 9882207189

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Merchants’ Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China 9789622099692, 9789888083480, 9622099696

Historians and anthropologists have long been interested in South China where powerful lineages and gendered hierarchies

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