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

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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...

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Main Author: Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Moral education.
Merit (Ethics)
Ethics.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Éducation morale > Chine > Histoire.
Morale > Chine > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Morale > Chine > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Moral education > China > History.
Ethics > China > History > 17th century.
Ethics > China > History > 16th century.
China.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 960-1644.
China > Social conditions > 960-1644.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (300 pages).
ISBN:9781400861941

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