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

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 divine reward to users good enough to accumulate Autor: Cynthia Joanne Brokaw Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Rok wydania: 2014 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 300 Wymiary: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.9 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9780691608792