Family and Property in Sung China : : 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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Library of Asian Translations ; 83
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.)
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Other title: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 Β. Discrepancies Between the 1179 and 1190 Editions --
GLOSSARY --
SOURCES CITED --
INDEX --
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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 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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781400853908
9783110649772
9783110413441
9783110413601
9783110442496
DOI:10.1515/9781400853908?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph