#3,908 in Business & money books
Use arrows to jump to the previous/next product
Reddit mentions of The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
Sentiment score: 1
Reddit mentions: 1
We found 1 Reddit mentions of The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Here are the top ones.
or
University of California Press
Specs:
| Color | Blue |
| Height | 9 Inches |
| Length | 6 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | September 1999 |
| Weight | 1.19931470528 Pounds |
| Width | 0.9 Inches |
If you are interested in military history, I strongly recommend Arthur Waldron's The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth. http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Wall-China-original/dp/052142707X
The Ming were the dynasty that built the Great Wall. Waldron explains at great length what drove them to do so - why they decided to build walls to face the nomad threat instead of follow other common strategies (trade networks, Heqin-type alliance, all out war).
Edward Dryer has a neat book about Zheng He, the Ming minister whose fleet sailed across the Indian ocean and to Africa http://www.amazon.com/Zheng-He-Dynasty-1405-1433-Biography/dp/0321084438/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381479732&sr=1-2&keywords=zheng+he
And if you like social history, then Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in the Ming is the go-to book. http://www.amazon.com/Confusions-Pleasure-Commerce-Culture-China/dp/0520221540/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381479790&sr=1-1&keywords=confusions+of+pleasure
I have not read this last one, but others in th eknow tell me it is the best place to start.