The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China by Cynthia Joanne Brokaw (Hardback, 2016)

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By Cynthia Joanne Brokaw ISBN: 9780691637181. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. Originally published in 1991.

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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 eugh to accumulate a substantial sum of merits. By examining the uses of the ledgers during the late Ming and early Qing periods, Cynthia Brokaw throws new light on the intellectual and social history of the late imperial era. The ledgers originally functioned as guides to salvation for twelfth-century Taoists and Buddhists, but Brokaw shows how the literati of turbulent sixteenth-century China began to use them as aids in the struggle for official status through civil service examinations. The author describes how the responses of some Confucian thinkers to the popularity of the ledgers t only refined the orthodox Neo-Confucian method of self-cultivation but also revealed the serious ambiguity of the classic Confucian understanding of the relationship between fate and human action. Finally, she demonstrates that by the end of the seventeenth century the ledgers were used t so much to facilitate upward mobility as to promote social stability by prescribing standards that encouraged people to keep to their social places.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techlogy to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Author(s)
Cynthia Joanne Brokaw
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date of Publication
19/04/2016
Language
English
Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
0691637180
ISBN-13
9780691637181
Subject
Philosophy
Series Title
Princeton Legacy Library

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Place of Publication
New Jersey
Country of Publication
United States
First Published
1991
Imprint
Princeton University Press

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595 g
Width
152 mm
Height
229 mm

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