TY - BOOK AU - Ebrey,Patricia Buckley AU - Ts'ai,Yuan TI - Family and Property in Sung China: Yuan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life T2 - Princeton Library of Asian Translations SN - 9780691612393 AV - BJ1558.C5 Y8313 1984eb U1 - 646.7/8 22 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Conduct of life KW - Early works to 1800 KW - FAMILY & KW - RELATIONSHIPS KW - General KW - Property KW - China KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Upper class families KW - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400853908?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400853908 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400853908.jpg ER -