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The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China
Contributors:
By (Author) Cynthia Joanne Brokaw
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
181.112
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
300
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
397g
Description
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
