books.google.com.au - The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Confusions_of_Pleasure.html?id=YuMcHWWbXqMC&q=Henan&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Confusions of Pleasure
