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Family and Property in Sung China : Yuan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Library of Asian Translations ; 83Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1984Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (380 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691612393
  • 9781400853908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 646.7/8 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1558.C5 Y8313 1984eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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 Β. Discrepancies Between the 1179 and 1190 Editions -- GLOSSARY -- SOURCES CITED -- INDEX -- Backmatter
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400853908

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 -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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