The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China - Princeton Legacy Library - Cynthia Joanne Brokaw - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691637181 - April 19, 2016
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The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China - Princeton Legacy Library

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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 divine reward to users "good" enough to accumulate


300 pages, black & white illustrations

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Released April 19, 2016
ISBN13 9780691637181
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 300
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 18 mm   ·   595 g
Language English  

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