Timothy Brooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 251010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Brooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooks |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Taylor Brook, Columbia University, email: [email protected]. |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1777-7521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comment la Chine des Ming s'est effondrée
Music, Art, Machine Learning, and Standardization
This paper explores current and hypothetical implementations of machine learning in the creation and marketing of cultural commodities such as music. Building on Adorno and Horkheimer's critique of the culture industry, this article considers the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence as a force for stylistic standardization and further consolidation of economic power in music and art
China and the Making of the Modern World by Ali Humayun Akhtar
This book is ambitious but baffling. Akhtar seeks to rewrite the history of the world of the past half-millennium by placing what he calls the “East,” though he mostly means China, at the center of the narrative. Although not an ostensibly unorthodox approach, his contribution to it is to draw from sources in the Muslim world. What is baffling is that he has selected the year 1368 as the peg on which to hang the portrait without offering any anal…
Understanding Microtuning Through Recording Analysis: The Transcription and Analysis of Microtuning in Five Recordings from a Variety of Musical Traditions
This article presents five computer-assisted analyses of musical recordings with a focus on microtuning, describing the details of pitch at sub-semitone level. Microtuning encompasses intonation, tuning systems, pitch inflection, vibrato, and sliding tones. As such, the article focuses on the analysis of recorded music and considers a wide variety of musical traditions: an American folk song, an Ainu lament, a Christian Ethiopian devotional, a Be…
Musicking with Music-Generation Software in Virtutes Occultae
This article explores concepts of compositional meaning that arise from cocreative composing with music-generation software. Drawing from an analysis of the 2017 electroacoustic composition Virtutes Occultae, the composer discusses the implications of computer-generated music for the role of the composer. After an overview of how the music-generation software he developed contributed to the creation of Virtutes Occultae, the composer makes compar…
Great States
Great State" has gone missing from the vocabulary of state formations in Asia. Though widely used across Inner and East Asia over the past millennium, the term means nothing to most scholars today. It is not flagged, rarely noted, and never theorized. Recent thinking about inter-polity relations in Inner and East Asia has led me to regard the Great State as a distinctive type of political formation that should have a place in our conceptual toolk…
Hesitating before the Judgment of History
The ubiquitous experience of wartime collaboration in East Asia has not yet undergone the analysis that its counterpart in Europe has received. The difficulty has to do with the political legacies that the denunciation of collaboration legitimized, as well as the continuing hegemony of the discourse of nationalism. Both inhibitors encourage the condemnation of collaboration rather than its historicization. Reflecting briefly on the 1946 trial of …
Collaboration in the Postwar
This article is a contribution to a symposium on collaboration in East Asia during the Asia-Pacific War and its aftermath, which addresses some of the most fraught issues in historiography, historical remembrance, and contemporary politics. It also reflects on occupation states in Europe and postwar East Asia, while casting important light on contemporary issues of collaboration globally. How are we to assess occupation regimes that emerged in ea…
The Chinese state in Ming society
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present-day state and society in China. In this unique collection of reworked and illustrated essays, one of the leading scholars of Chinese history re-examines this relationship and argues that, contrary to previous scholarship, which emphasized the heavy hand of the state, it was radical responses within society to chan…
Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities
The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking
The japanese assault on the city of nanking in December 1937 was one of many incidents that the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE, 1946-48) examined in the course of judging the wartime leaders of Japan. What was referred to at the time as the "Rape of Nanking" has in the last several decades become a controversial marker of Chinese identity as well as a source of potent disagreement among Japanese over their nation's histor…
Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
Introduction Gregory Blue and Timothy Brook 1. The West, capitalism and the modern world-system Immanuel Wallerstein 2. China and Western social thought Gregory Blue 3. Capitalism and the writing of modern history in China Timothy Brook 4. Toward a critical history of non-Western technology Francesca Bray 5. The political economy of agrarian Empire and its modern legacy R. Bin Wong Bibliography
Documents on the Rape of Nanking
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain
Chinese Nationalism
The Sinology of Joseph Needham
Rarely does even a great scholar go beyond altering his field to changing the way in which people think about the world. Joseph Needham, who died last spring at the age of ninety-four, was one of those rare few. Because of his work, the great achievements of the Chinese scientific tradition are now common knowledge. The path to that knowledge was strewn with controversy, but Joseph (as he insisted his junior associates address him) was blithe abo…
Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China
Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yu's World
Disorder Under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty
Quelling the People: The Military Suppresion of the Beijing Democracy Movement
National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China
The Emperor's Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch'ien-lung Era
The Asiatic Mode of Production in China
The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking
The japanese assault on the city of nanking in December 1937 was one of many incidents that the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE, 1946-48) examined in the course of judging the wartime leaders of Japan. What was referred to at the time as the "Rape of Nanking" has in the last several decades become a controversial marker of Chinese identity as well as a source of potent disagreement among Japanese over their nation's histor…
Censorship in Eighteenth-Century China: A View from the Book Trade
Great States
Great State" has gone missing from the vocabulary of state formations in Asia. Though widely used across Inner and East Asia over the past millennium, the term means nothing to most scholars today. It is not flagged, rarely noted, and never theorized. Recent thinking about inter-polity relations in Inner and East Asia has led me to regard the Great State as a distinctive type of political formation that should have a place in our conceptual toolk…
Hesitating before the Judgment of History
The ubiquitous experience of wartime collaboration in East Asia has not yet undergone the analysis that its counterpart in Europe has received. The difficulty has to do with the political legacies that the denunciation of collaboration legitimized, as well as the continuing hegemony of the discourse of nationalism. Both inhibitors encourage the condemnation of collaboration rather than its historicization. Reflecting briefly on the 1946 trial of …
The Sinology of Joseph Needham
Rarely does even a great scholar go beyond altering his field to changing the way in which people think about the world. Joseph Needham, who died last spring at the age of ninety-four, was one of those rare few. Because of his work, the great achievements of the Chinese scientific tradition are now common knowledge. The path to that knowledge was strewn with controversy, but Joseph (as he insisted his junior associates address him) was blithe abo…
Music, Art, Machine Learning, and Standardization
This paper explores current and hypothetical implementations of machine learning in the creation and marketing of cultural commodities such as music. Building on Adorno and Horkheimer's critique of the culture industry, this article considers the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence as a force for stylistic standardization and further consolidation of economic power in music and art
William Arthur Charles Harvey Dobson (1913-1982)
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Censorship in Eighteenth-Century China: A View from the Book Trade
The Emperor's Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch'ien-lung Era
The Asiatic Mode of Production in China
National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China
Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yu's World
Disorder Under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty
Quelling the People: The Military Suppresion of the Beijing Democracy Movement
Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China
The Sinology of Joseph Needham
Rarely does even a great scholar go beyond altering his field to changing the way in which people think about the world. Joseph Needham, who died last spring at the age of ninety-four, was one of those rare few. Because of his work, the great achievements of the Chinese scientific tradition are now common knowledge. The path to that knowledge was strewn with controversy, but Joseph (as he insisted his junior associates address him) was blithe abo…
Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain
Chinese Nationalism
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
Introduction Gregory Blue and Timothy Brook 1. The West, capitalism and the modern world-system Immanuel Wallerstein 2. China and Western social thought Gregory Blue 3. Capitalism and the writing of modern history in China Timothy Brook 4. Toward a critical history of non-Western technology Francesca Bray 5. The political economy of agrarian Empire and its modern legacy R. Bin Wong Bibliography
Documents on the Rape of Nanking
The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking
The japanese assault on the city of nanking in December 1937 was one of many incidents that the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE, 1946-48) examined in the course of judging the wartime leaders of Japan. What was referred to at the time as the "Rape of Nanking" has in the last several decades become a controversial marker of Chinese identity as well as a source of potent disagreement among Japanese over their nation's histor…
Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities
The Chinese state in Ming society
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present-day state and society in China. In this unique collection of reworked and illustrated essays, one of the leading scholars of Chinese history re-examines this relationship and argues that, contrary to previous scholarship, which emphasized the heavy hand of the state, it was radical responses within society to chan…
Collaboration in the Postwar
This article is a contribution to a symposium on collaboration in East Asia during the Asia-Pacific War and its aftermath, which addresses some of the most fraught issues in historiography, historical remembrance, and contemporary politics. It also reflects on occupation states in Europe and postwar East Asia, while casting important light on contemporary issues of collaboration globally. How are we to assess occupation regimes that emerged in ea…
Hesitating before the Judgment of History
The ubiquitous experience of wartime collaboration in East Asia has not yet undergone the analysis that its counterpart in Europe has received. The difficulty has to do with the political legacies that the denunciation of collaboration legitimized, as well as the continuing hegemony of the discourse of nationalism. Both inhibitors encourage the condemnation of collaboration rather than its historicization. Reflecting briefly on the 1946 trial of …
Great States
Great State" has gone missing from the vocabulary of state formations in Asia. Though widely used across Inner and East Asia over the past millennium, the term means nothing to most scholars today. It is not flagged, rarely noted, and never theorized. Recent thinking about inter-polity relations in Inner and East Asia has led me to regard the Great State as a distinctive type of political formation that should have a place in our conceptual toolk…
Musicking with Music-Generation Software in Virtutes Occultae
This article explores concepts of compositional meaning that arise from cocreative composing with music-generation software. Drawing from an analysis of the 2017 electroacoustic composition Virtutes Occultae, the composer discusses the implications of computer-generated music for the role of the composer. After an overview of how the music-generation software he developed contributed to the creation of Virtutes Occultae, the composer makes compar…
Understanding Microtuning Through Recording Analysis: The Transcription and Analysis of Microtuning in Five Recordings from a Variety of Musical Traditions
This article presents five computer-assisted analyses of musical recordings with a focus on microtuning, describing the details of pitch at sub-semitone level. Microtuning encompasses intonation, tuning systems, pitch inflection, vibrato, and sliding tones. As such, the article focuses on the analysis of recorded music and considers a wide variety of musical traditions: an American folk song, an Ainu lament, a Christian Ethiopian devotional, a Be…
Music, Art, Machine Learning, and Standardization
This paper explores current and hypothetical implementations of machine learning in the creation and marketing of cultural commodities such as music. Building on Adorno and Horkheimer's critique of the culture industry, this article considers the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence as a force for stylistic standardization and further consolidation of economic power in music and art
Political science (19 works) · China (17 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (16 works) · History (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works)