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According to Wikipedia, Timothy James Brook is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China . 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.

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The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China (1998) (302)
Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China (1994) (144)
Civil Society in China (1997) (118)
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (2010) (102)
Death by a thousand cuts. (2008) (102)
Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries) (2003) (78)
Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China (2005) (70)
Opium regimes : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 (2001) (68)
State-Led Civil Society (2015) (65)
Rethinking Syncretism: The Unity of the Three Teachings and their Joint Worship in Late-Imperial China (1993) (60)
Culture and economy : the shaping of capitalism in Eastern Asia (1997) (59)
Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement (1993) (53)
The Chinese State in Ming Society (2004) (52)
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (2007) (52)
Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia (1999) (49)
The Troubled Empire (2010) (46)
Censorship in Eighteenth-Century China: A View from the Book Trade (1988) (44)
Funerary Ritual and The Building of Lineages in Late Imperial China (1989) (42)
The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking (2001) (40)
Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan (2018) (40)
The Asiatic Mode of Production in China (1989) (32)
Communications and commerce (1998) (31)
[China & Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge] (2000) (26)
National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China. (1991) (26)
Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities (2002) (26)
Geographical Sources Of Ming-Qing History (1988) (25)
Documents on the Rape of Nanking (1999) (22)
Guides for Vexed Travelers: Route Books in the Ming and Qing (2011) (21)
China and Historical Capitalism: Capitalism and the writing of modern history in China (1999) (19)
The Spatial Structure of Ming Local Administration (1985) (15)
Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724 (review) (2008) (14)
NINE SLOUGHS: PROFILING THE CLIMATE HISTORY OF THE YUAN AND MING DYNASTIES, 1260–1644* † (2016) (12)
The Merchant Network in 16th Century China (1981) (12)
The Merchant Network In 16th Century China A Discussion And Translation Of Zhang Han's "On Merchants" (1981) (12)
Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia (2015) (10)
Edifying Knowledge: The Building of School Libraries in Ming China (1996) (10)
At the margin of public authority: The Ming state and Buddhism (2005) (10)
Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700. By Joseph R. Dennis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. Pp. 406. $49.95, hardcover (2016) (10)
Propagation measurements using synthetic aperture radar techniques (1996) (8)
Mr Selden's map of China : the spice trade, a lost chart and the South China Sea (2013) (8)
Hesitating before the Judgment of History (2012) (7)
China and Historical Capitalism: Introduction (1999) (7)
Order and recursion in topoi (1977) (6)
Finiteness: Another aspect of topoi (1975) (5)
Time and Global History (2009) (5)
Temperature and Precipitation Extremes (2010) (5)
Collaboration in the History of Wartime East Asia Collaboration in War and Memory in East Asia: A Symposium (2020) (5)
The Sinology of Joseph Needham (1996) (5)
Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven: Rebellion and the Economy of Violence in Mid-Ming China (review) (2003) (4)
China and Historical Capitalism: Preface (1999) (3)
The Cambridge History of China, Volume 13: Republican China 1912-1949, Part 2, edited by John Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker (1988) (3)
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). (2001) (3)
Quelling the People (1998) (3)
Introduction: Opium’s History in China (2000) (3)
The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China by Dagmar Schäfer (review) (2013) (3)
Differential effects of global and local climate data in assessing environmental drivers of epidemic outbreaks (2017) (3)
Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History, Second Edition (2002) (2)
What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border? (2007) (2)
Guides for Vexed Travelers: — A Supplement — (2011) (2)
2. The Politics of Religion: Late-Imperial Origins of the Regulatory State (2020) (2)
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. (1986) (2)
The Revival of China's Musical Culture (1979) (2)
Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938–1940 (2000) (2)
Weber’s Religion of China (2017) (2)
The gazetteer cartography of Ye Chunji (2005) (2)
Comparative pandemics: the Tudor–Stuart and Wanli–Chongzhen years of pestilence, 1567–1666 (2020) (2)
Building school libraries in the mid-Ming (2005) (2)
Guides for Vexed Travelers: A Second Supplement (2016) (2)
Articles : Capital Punishment and State Sovereignty in China (2011) (2)
Digital Glue: Creative Media in the Classroom (2010) (2)
Chinese Charting of Maritime Asia (2017) (2)
China and capitalism : genealogies of sinological knowledge (1999) (1)
Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1800, by Peter C. Perdue (1988) (1)
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. (2009) (1)
The spatial organization of subcounty administration (2005) (1)
Must lineages own land (1988) (1)
The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography@@@Documents on the Rape of Nanking (2001) (1)
3. The Nine Sloughs (2010) (1)
PICTURING CLUNAS: A REVIEW ESSAY (1998) (1)
Trade and Conflict in the South China Sea: Portugal and China, 1514–23 (2013) (1)
The Teaching of History to Foreign Students at Peking University (1977) (1)
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). (1986) (1)
The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II (2009) (1)
The Ownership and Theft of Monastic Land in Ming China (2014) (1)
Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus Serum seu Sinensium (Oxford, 1688) by Thomas Hyde: a forgotten chapter in the history of sinology (2022) (1)
China's maritime world (2017) (1)
Taxing polders on the Yangzi Delta (2005) (1)
Telling Famine Stories: The Wanli Emperor and the “Henan Famine” of 1594 (2015) (1)
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. (1997) (0)
When Famine Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (2011) (0)
Glossary and Index (2019) (0)
1368: China and the Making of the Modern World by Ali Humayun Akhtar (2023) (0)
8. The Business of Things (2010) (0)
Jean Eva Shorland (2019) (0)
Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of Nanking:: The Tokyo Judgment and the Guilt of History (2017) (0)
Marcus Bingenheimer: Island of Guanyin: Mount Putuo and its Gazetteers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016; pp. xii + 283. (2021) (0)
Qing History: The State of the Field in 1983 (2011) (0)
Timothy Brook (comp.). The asiatic mode of production in China. Nueva York : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989. ix-xi, 204 p. (1990) (0)
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). (2014) (0)
State censorship and the book trade (2005) (0)
The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1, edited by Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett (1989) (0)
Buddhism in the Chinese constitution: Recording monasteries in North Zhili (2005) (0)
5. Economy and Ecology (2010) (0)
Spring: The Middle Century (1450-1550) (2019) (0)
Fall: The Lord of Silver (1642-1644) (2019) (0)
Introduction: Seasons of the' Ming (1609) (2019) (0)
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.] (2004) (0)
2. Occupation State Building (2007) (0)
Friends and enemies of the people (1983) (0)
Local limits and tripleability. (1974) (0)
Reviews of Books:Japan and China: Mutual Representations in the Modern Era Masuda Wataru, Joshua A. Fogel (2002) (0)
A Genealogy of Ming Emperors (2019) (0)
China and Historical Capitalism: Bibliography (1999) (0)
Harmonious Disagreement: Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends; Making the New World Their Own: Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery (2016) (0)
Our Epistemological Mess: An Enthusiastic Reader’s Response to Urs App’s The Birth of Orientalism (2014) (0)
9. The South China Sea (2010) (0)
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.). (2006) (0)
Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (review) (2011) (0)
A Month of Delta Summer: The Work of Leisure in The Diary of Li Rihua (2016) (0)
Conclusions: States of the field (2005) (0)
Vermeer's hat: What 17th century Dutch paintings reveal of our global world (2008) (0)
Perry Bridge Network Arch—Elegance in Efficiency (2020) (0)
William Arthur Charles Harvey Dobson (1913–1982) (1982) (0)
Winter: The First Century (1368-1450) (2019) (0)
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. (2014) (0)
In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia by David M. Robinson, and: Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia by David M. Robinson (review) (2022) (0)
The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (1986) (0)
4. Khan and Emperor (2010) (0)
Chinese Collaboration in Nanking (2017) (0)
Reviews of Books (2004) (0)
Growing rice in North Zhili (2005) (0)
The Thousand and one Stories of the Silk Road (2020) (0)
Randomness and Control in Contemporary Code Art (2017) (0)
Introduction: A grave in Nanchang (2005) (0)
1. Dragon Spotting (2010) (0)
Long Night's Journey into Day: Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941–1945 by Charles G. Roland (review) (2014) (0)
Summer: The Last Century (1550-1644) (2019) (0)
China and Historical Capitalism: Major dynastic periods in China's history (1999) (0)
THE STRENGTHENING OF THE NORBERT STREET CABLE-STAYED FOOTBRIDGE, HUTT VALLEY, NEW ZEALAND (2000) (0)
Religious Reconfigurations in the People ' s Republic of China (2016) (0)
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. (2004) (0)
Voices Rising Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism (2008) (0)
POSHEK FU, Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. $ 27.95. (1996) (0)
Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590–1800. Thijs Weststeijn, ed. East and West 6. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xiv + 376 pp. $212. (2021) (0)
A Ming Chronology (2019) (0)
Trade and Conflict in the South China Sea (2013) (0)
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. (2006) (0)
Succession of Emperors (2010) (0)

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