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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2014.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztpxw |