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Family and Property in Sung China: Yuan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Family and Property in Sung China: Yuan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life
Contributors:
By (Author) Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Society and culture: general
Dewey:
306.850951
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
380
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
709g
Description
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
