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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Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne - 1950- [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press ; 1991

©1991

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Schlagwörter:

Merit (Ethics)

Moral education, History, China

Ethics, History, 17th century, China

Ethics, History, 16th century, China

Philosophie.

Ethics

Moral education

Merit (Ethics).

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Ethics.

Moral education.

Social history.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

Umfang:

1 online resource(304p.)

Reproduktion:

1991

Reihe:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 1180

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ISBN:

978-1-4008-6194-1

DOI / URN:

10.1515/9781400861941

Katalog-ID:

1657126382

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