BROCP2 Brook, Timothy: CONFUSIONS OF PLEASURE. Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley, 1999. 320 pp. B/w illustrations. 23x15 cm. Paper. GBP 19.99 Brook eloquently narrates the changes in life in the Ming Dynasty when China was transformed from an agrarian realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status. Told in terms of the habits and strains of everyday life undergoing change. Paperback edition. Subjects: History Can be ordered in, as of: 01/09/2008 Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com.