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Family and Property in Sung China: Yuan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life
By (Author) Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Society and culture: general
306.850951
Paperback
380
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
510g
Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns of managing a family, from rearing children and arranging their marriages, to avoiding social conflict, training servants, and managing property and preserving it for the