Ledgers of merit and demerit, the: social change and moral order in late imperial china
Auteur :
Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691608792
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
422 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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