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

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley (Translated, with Annotations and Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 0691054266 / ISBN 13: 9780691054261

Published by Princeton University, 1984

About this Item

Best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class. Seller Inventory # 01775

Bibliographic Details

Title: Family and Property in Sung China: Yuan ...

Publisher: Princeton University

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

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About the Author:

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of "Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China" (1991).