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The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China - Princeton Legacy Library Cynthia Joanne Brokaw
The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China - Princeton Legacy Library
Cynthia Joanne Brokaw
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
300 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 19, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691637181 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 300 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 595 g |
| Language | English |