The confusions of pleasure : commerce and culture in Ming China /
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 Bro...
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Berkeley :
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©1998.
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