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Timothy Brook

Born

in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

January 06, 1951

Website

http://timothybrook.com/

Genre

History, Chinese Studies

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Timothy James Brook is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology). He holds the Republic of China Chair, Department of History, University of British Columbia.

His research interests include the social and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty in China; law and punishment in Imperial China; collaboration during Japan's wartime occupation of China, 1937–45 and war crimes trials in Asia; global history; and historiography. ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 4,983 ratings · 597 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World 3.85 avg rating — 2,632 ratings — published 2007 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great State: China and the World 3.85 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 2019 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #5) 3.92 avg rating — 319 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer 3.64 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 2013 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China 3.95 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1991 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Documents on the Rape of Nanking 4.57 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China 4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China 3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death by a Thousand Cuts by Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue 3.47 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan by Timothy Brook (Editor), Miek Boltjes (Editor), Michael van Walt van Praag (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.”
― Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

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“Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.”
― Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

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“Three years after Liang’s execution, the Nationalist Government fled to Taiwan and the Chinese Communist Party claimed its inheritance as China’s postwar successor regime. The postwar era lasted longer in some places than in others. In China, arguably, it hasn’t ended.”
― Timothy Brook, Great State: China and the World

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