Timothy Brook

Professor of History and Republic of China Chair Timothy Brook

Discusses how the moments captured in the paintings of Johannes Vermeer portray the increasing globalization of the seventeenth century, identifying significant objects and explaining how they document economical, industrial, and societal changes around t

The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

Vermeer's Hat

Tu-Ki Min Tu-Ki

Tu-gi Min

Duki Min

Despite efforts to attain a more balanced approach, Western historians have largely interpreted China's modern period in terms of China's 'response to the West.' This book, by a scholar who is neither Chinese nor Western, goes far to set the balance right. Min Tu-ki, Korea's leading Sinologist, shows how China's own internal agenda has conditioned Chinese political life during the transition to modernity.

Professor of History and Republic of China Chair Timothy Brook

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