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  1. Robert K. Batchelor. London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549–1689 . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. vi + 334 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-08065-9.
  2. Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500–1880. Edited by Peter N. Miller and François Lewis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. $65.00 (cloth, ebook).
  3. Book Review: Mr Selden’s Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart and the South China Sea
  4. Timothy Brook: Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer. xxiv, 211 pp. New York and London: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. $25. ISBN 978 1 62040 143 9.
  5. Our Epistemological Mess: An Enthusiastic Reader’s Response To Urs App’sThe Birth of Orientalism
  6. Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer. TIMOTHY BROOK. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. xxii + 199 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-1-62040-143-9
  7. Timothy Brook, Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China (1993) [41]
  8. The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China by Dagmar Schäfer
  9. Hesitating before the Judgment of History
  10. Seoul and Nanking, Baghdad and Kabul: A Response to Timothy Brook and Michael Shin
  11. The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties by Timothy Brook
  12. Timothy Brook,The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
  13. Timothy Brook: The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. (History of Imperial China.) vi, 329 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. £25.95. ISBN 978 0 674 04602 3
  14. Timothy BROOK, The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. History of Imperial China 5. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-04602-3 (hbk.). £25.95 / €31.50 / $35.00.
  15. The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. By Timothy Brook. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 329 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
  16. Timothy Brook , Jérôme Bourgon , and Gregory Blue . Death by a Thousand Cuts . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . 2008 . Pp. xi, 320. $29.95.
  17. TIMOTHY BROOK, JEROME BOURGON, GREGORY BLUE. Death by a Thousand Cuts. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2008. Pp. xi, 320. $29.95
  18. Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. By Leonard Blussé. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 133. $25.95, cloth.
  19. Time and Global History
  20. Death by a Thousand Cuts. By Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xi, 1 pp. $22.95 (cloth).
  21. Vermeer’s hat: the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world - By Timothy Brook. New York: Bloomsbury Press, and London: Profile Books, 2008. Pp. xi + 272. Hardback US$26.95, ISBN 978–1-59691–444-5; or £18.99, ISBN 978–1-84668–112-7.
  22. 36. The Merchant Network In 16th Century China
  23. Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724 (review)
  24. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
  25. The Merchant Network In 16th Century China A Discussion And Translation Of Zhang Han’s "On Merchants"
  26. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
  27. FRANK DIKÖTTER, LARS LAAMANN and ZHOU XUN: Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China . xi, 319 pp. London: Hurst; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. £25.
  28. John M. Carroll, Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. xii + 260 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01701-3 (hbk.).
  29. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. By Timothy Brook. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. x, 288 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
  30. The Chinese State in Ming Society. By Timothy Brook. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. Pp. 272. ISBN 0415345073.
  31. The Chinese State in Ming Society
  32. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
  33. Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries)
  34. The Power of Tiananmen: State–Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. By Dingxin Zhao. [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 433 pp. ISBN 0-226-98260-2.]
  35. W. F. Vande Walle, ed., The History of the Relations between the Low Countries and China in the Qing Era (1644-1911). Co-edited by Noël Golvers. Leuven Chinese Studies XIV. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2003. 508 pp. ISBN 90-5867-315-4.
  36. China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge Timothy Brook Gregory Blue
  37. China and Historical Capitalism. Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. By Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue. pp. xi, 291. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  38. Opium, State and Society: China's Narco-economy and the Guomindang, 1924–1937. By Edward R. Slack. [Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2000. xiii+240pp. ISBN 0-8248-2278-1.]. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Edited by Timothy...
  39. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. pp. 458. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000.
  40. Reviews of Books:Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 Timothy Brook, Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi; Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937 Edward R. Slack, Jr.
  41. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
  42. Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities
  43. Opium Regimes: China, Britain and Japan, 1839-1952 Timothy Brook Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
  44. Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven: Rebellion and the Economy of Violence in Mid-Ming China (review)
  45. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952. Edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000) 444 pp. $60.00 cloth $22.95 paper
  46. The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking
  47. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xii, 444 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
  48. Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities
  49. China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. Edited by Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 291. $64.95.
  50. The Tiananmen Papers. Compiled by Zhang Liang. Edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. 513 pp. $30.00 (cloth).
  51. Documents on the Rape of Nanking
  52. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
  53. Opium RegimesChina, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
  54. Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938–1940
  55. Introduction: Opium’s History in China
  56. TIMOTHY BROOK and GREGORY BLUE, eds, China and Historical Knowledge: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 291 pp. Price not mentioned
  57. Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement. By Timothy Brook. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. xiv, 269 pp. $30.00 (cloth).
  58. Documents on the Rape of Nanking
  59. China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
  60. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. By Timothy Brook (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998) 320 pp. $40.00
  61. East Asia - Timothy Brook: The confusions of pleasure: commerce and culture in Ming China. xxv, 320 pp. 4 maps, 38 illustrations. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. $40, £35.
  62. Aisa, Africa, And Latin America - The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. By Timothy Brook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp.xxv. 320. $40.00.
  63. Review Article : Timothy Brook and Hy V Luong (eds); Culture and Economy (The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia); Ann Arbor: The Univer sity of Michigan Press; 1997; 271 pages; $19.95
  64. China and Historical Capitalism
  65. The West, capitalism, and the modern world-system
  66. Capitalism and the writing of modern history in China
  67. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
  68. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. By Timothy Brook. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998. xxv, 320 pp. $40.00.
  69. Civil Society in China. Edited by Timothy Brook and B. Michael Frolic. [Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. 256 pp. Cloth £64.95, ISBN 0-7656-0091-9; paperback $27.95, ISBN 0-7656-0092-7.]
  70. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
  71. Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia
  72. :The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China . By Timothy Brook ( Berkeley , University of California Press , 1998 ) 320 pp. $40.00
  73. The Excesses of Commerce - Timothy Brook: The Confusions of Pleasure-Commerce and Culture in Ming China. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xxv, 320. $40.00.)
  74. TIMOTHY BROOK, Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
  75. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. By Timothy Brook. [Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1998. 345 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0-520-21091-3.]
  76. Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia. Edited by Timothy Brook and Hy V. Luong. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. viii. 301 pp. $49.50.
  77. Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China
  78. Book Reviews : Timothy BROOK and B. Michael FROLIC (Eds.), Civil Society in China. Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharp 1997. Distributed by Eurospan, London. xii + 244 pp. ISBN: 0-7656-0091-9 (hc), 0-7656-0092-7 (pbk). Price: £22.50
  79. PICTURING CLUNAS: A REVIEW ESSAY
  80. Civil Society with Chinese Characteristics? Civil Society in China Timothy Brook B. Michael Frolic
  81. A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth the Seventeenth Centuries. By John W. Dardess. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xi, 316 pp. $45.00.
  82. Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain.
  83. Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism. Edited by Donald S. LopezJr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 298 pp. $16.95 (paper). - Buddhism in Practice. Edited by Donald S. LopezJr. Princeton Readings in Religion. Princ...
  84. Timothy Brook: ‘Praying for power’: Buddhism and the formation of gentry society in Late-Ming China. (Harvard-Yenching Monograph Series, Vol. 38.) xvii, 403 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Council of East Asian Studies, Harvard University and the Harvard-Yenchin...
  85. Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (review)
  86. Edifying Knowledge: The Building of School Libraries in Ming China
  87. POSHEK FU, Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. $ 27.95.
  88. TIMOTHY BROOK, Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 38, Cambridge, Mass., 1993. 403 pp., tables, ill., maps. ISBN 0-674-69775-8. £27.95/$41.95.
  89. Praying for Power: Buddhism and The Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China
  90. Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late- Ming China.
  91. Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China. By Timothy Brook. [Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies. Harvard University, 1993. xx + 403 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-69775-8.]
  92. Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China. By Timothy Brook. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Distributed by Harvard University...
  93. Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China.
  94. Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement. Timothy Brook
  95. Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement. By Timothy Brook. [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 265 pp. $27.50. ISBN 0 19 507457 2.]
  96. Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing About Rites
  97. Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement.
  98. Disorder Under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty.
  99. Quelling the People: The Military Suppresion of the Beijing Democracy Movement.
  100. Rethinking Syncretism: The Unity of the Three Teachings and their Joint Worship in Late-Imperial China
  101. Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yu's World.
  102. Book Reviews : Min Tu-ki, National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China, edited by Philip A. Kuhn and Timothy Brook. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), xiv, 309 pp. Cloth. $ 26.00
  103. National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China.
  104. National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China. By Min Tu-ki. Edited by Philip A. Kuhn and Timothy Brook. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University and the Harvard Yenching Institute, 1990. 309 pp. $...
  105. National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China.
  106. Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History
  107. The Asiatic Mode of Production in China.Edited (with an Introduction) by Timothy Brook. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989. xi, 204 pp.
  108. The Asiatic Mode of Production in China.
  109. The Emperor's Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch'ien-lung Era
  110. Funerary Ritual and The Building of Lineages in Late Imperial China
  111. Must lineages own land?
  112. Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology. By David E. Mungello. Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa, vol. 25. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH, 1985. 405 pp. 20 Plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. DM 96.
  113. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. By Jonathan D. Spence. New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. New York: Elisabeth Sifton/Penguin, 1985. xv, 350 pp. Maps, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $7.95 (paper).
  114. A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang. By Yang Hsüan-chih. Translated by Yi-t'ung Wang. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) xxii, 310 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Glossary, List of Official Ti...
  115. A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang. By Yang Hsüan-chih. Translated by Yi-t'ung Wang. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) xxii, 310 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Glossary, List of Official Ti...
  116. The Spatial Structure of Ming Local Administration
  117. Friends and enemies of the people
  118. William Arthur Charles Harvey Dobson (1913–1982)
  119. The Merchant Network in 16th Century China: A Discussion and Translation of Zhang Han's "On Merchants"
  120. The Merchant Network in 16th Century China
  121. The Revival of China's Musical Culture
  122. The Teaching of History to Foreign Students at Peking University
  123. Communications and commerce
  124. Trade and Conflict in the South China Sea
  125. The Ownership and Theft of Monastic Land in Ming China