Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
For What It’s Worth: Prices and Values in Ming China
April 14, 15, and 16, 2010 4:15 pm, Harvard University
Timothy Brook, Professor of History,University of British Columbia
Lecture 1: The Cost of Everything
Lecture 2: The Price of Culture
Lecture 3: Prices and Crises
Timothy Brook is principal of St. John’s College and professor of history at University of British Columbia. His research ranges from Ming history, culture, and economy to modern civil society, Sino-Japanese collaboration, and international commerce. The Association for Asian Studies awarded The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China the Levenson Prize in 2000. His most recent book, Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, won the 2009 Mark Lynton History Prize awarded by Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard.
All three Reischauer Lectures begin at 4:15 pm and take place in CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
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