The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)

The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China

(Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)

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The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of divine reward to users "good" enough to accumulate

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Forlag Princeton University Press
Forfatter Cynthia Joanne Brokaw
Type Bog
Format Paperback / softback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 14-07-2014
Første udgivelsesår 2014
Serie Princeton Legacy Library
Originalsprog United States
Sideantal 300
Indbinding Paperback / softback
Forlag Princeton University Press
Sideoplysninger 300 pages
Mål 156 x 234 x 19
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9780691608792