The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit : Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China.
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2014.
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| Serier: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztpxw |
| Summary: | 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 a substantial sum of merits. By examining the uses of the ledgers during the late Ming and early Qing periods, Cynthia Brokaw throws new light on the intellectual and social history of the late imperial era. The ledgers originally functioned as. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400861941 1400861942 |