The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China
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| Beschreibung: | 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 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 not 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 not 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 technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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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| spelling | Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne Verfasser aut The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China Cynthia Joanne Brokaw Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press [1991] 1 Online-Ressource (304p.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier 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 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 not 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 not 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 technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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 In English Geschichte 1600-1700 Geschichte 1500-1600 Geschichte 960-1644 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1000-1700 gnd rswk-swf Philosophie Ethics / China / History / 16th century Ethics / China / History / 17th century Moral education / China / History Merit (Ethics) SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Ethics Moral education Social history Geschichte Sozialgeschichte Sozialer Wandel (DE-588)4077587-2 gnd rswk-swf Ethik (DE-588)4015602-3 gnd rswk-swf Sozialethik (DE-588)4055765-0 gnd rswk-swf China (DE-588)4009937-4 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4113937-9 Hochschulschrift gnd-content China (DE-588)4009937-4 g Sozialer Wandel (DE-588)4077587-2 s Ethik (DE-588)4015602-3 s Geschichte 1000-1700 z 2\p DE-604 Sozialethik (DE-588)4055765-0 s Geschichte 960-1644 z 3\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400861941 Verlag Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China |
| title_auth | The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China |
| title_exact_search | The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China |
| title_full | The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China Cynthia Joanne Brokaw |
| title_fullStr | The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China Cynthia Joanne Brokaw |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China Cynthia Joanne Brokaw |
| title_short | The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit |
| title_sort | the ledgers of merit and demerit social change and moral order in late imperial china |
| title_sub | Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China |
| topic | Philosophie Ethics / China / History / 16th century Ethics / China / History / 17th century Moral education / China / History Merit (Ethics) SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Ethics Moral education Social history Geschichte Sozialgeschichte Sozialer Wandel (DE-588)4077587-2 gnd Ethik (DE-588)4015602-3 gnd Sozialethik (DE-588)4055765-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | Philosophie Ethics / China / History / 16th century Ethics / China / History / 17th century Moral education / China / History Merit (Ethics) SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Ethics Moral education Social history Geschichte Sozialgeschichte Sozialer Wandel Ethik Sozialethik China Hochschulschrift |
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