TY  - GEN
T1  - The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit : Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China.
T2  - Princeton legacy library.
A1  - Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn884013136
AB  - 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.
OP  - 300
CN  - BJ117
SN  - 9781400861941
SN  - 1400861942
KW  - Ethics : China : History : 16th century.
KW  - Ethics : China : History : 17th century.
KW  - Moral education : China : History.
KW  - Merit (Ethics)
KW  - China : Social conditions : 960-1644.
KW  - Morale : Chine : Histoire : 16e siècle.
KW  - Morale : Chine : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - Éducation morale : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Chine : Conditions sociales : 960-1644.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Social.
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Moral education
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - China
KW  - 960-1699
KW  - History
ER  -