Family and property in sung china: yuan ts'ai's precepts for social life : yuan ts'ai's precepts for social life

Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns of managing a family, from rearing children and arranging their marriages, to avoiding social conflict, traini...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [1985]
©1985
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Course Book.
Series: Princeton legacy library
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400853908
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Summary: Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns of managing a family, from rearing children and arranging their marriages, to avoiding social conflict, training servants, and managing property and preserving it for the next generation.Originally published in 1984.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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9781400853908
Index Number: BJ1558
CLC: B825
Contents: Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
PREFACE --
ABBREVIATIONS --
PART ONE. Class, Culture, Family, and Property --
PART TWO. Precepts for Social Life /
APPENDIX A. Editions of the Precepts for Social Life and Their Transmission --
APPENDIX . Discrepancies Between the 1179 and 1190 Editions --
GLOSSARY --
SOURCES CITED --
INDEX --
Backmatter.