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The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit
- Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China
part of the Princeton Legacy Library series
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 300
- Published:
- July 13, 2014
- Dimensions:
- 234x156x19 mm.
- Weight:
- 466 g.
Delivery:
2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 12, 2024
Description of The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit
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
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