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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2014.
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| סדרה: | Princeton legacy library.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztpxw |
תוכן הענינים:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Merit Accumulation in the Early Chinese Tradition; 2. Merit Accumulation for Status Advancement; 3. The Debate over Supernatural Retribution and Merit Accumulation; 4. Preserving the Social Hierarchy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Conclusion; Appendix: Extant Morality Books and Ledgers of Merit and Demerit Published in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Glossary; Sources Cited; Index.