Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook

Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook

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Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook

Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook

Written by Ebrey
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The standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. Contents:The Classical period. The metal bound box --Hexagrams --Songs and poems --The battle of Chin and Ch'u --Confucius --Chuang Tzu. The Han Dynasty. The debate on salt and iron --Rules for visiting --Social relations --Two women --The interaction of yin and yang --Local cults --Uprisings. The era of division and the T'ang dynasty. Ko Hung's autobiography --Dedicatory colophons --A woman's hundred years --The examination system --Household registration --Slaves --Family division. The Sung and Yuan dynasties. Book of rewards and punishments --Precepts of the Perfect Truth Taoist sect --Ancestral rites --The shrew --The problems of women --Rules for the Fan lineage's charitable estate --The attractions of the capital --The mutual responsibility system --On farming --A schedule for learning --Kuo Pi's diary. The Ming dynasty. Proclamations of the Hung-wu emperor. Laws against theft and robbery --Maxims for daily life --The dragon boat race --Village ordinances --Routine commercial procedures --What the weaver said --Tenants --Shi Chin, the nine-dragoned --Merchants in the Ming --Family instructions --The spite of Lotus --Li Chih's letters. The Ch'ing dynasty. Parables and ghost stories --Proverbs about heaven --Almanac --Taxes and labor service --Permanent property --Lan Ting-yüan's casebook --Exhortations on ceremony and deference --Village organization --The village headman and the new teacher --Boat people --Infant protection society --Mid-century rebels --The conditions and activities of workers --Marriage contracts --Genealogy rules --Families and lineages of Yen-yüan county. The early twentieth century. The movement against footbinding --The new prefect --Rural education --The Shanghai Builders' Guild --On freeing slave girls --My old home --The Hai-feng Peasant Association --The dog-meat general --The general strike --Funeral processions --My wife and child --Birth customs --The life of beggars --Spring silkworms --The orange grower and the old sailor. The People's Republic. Land reform --Hu Feng's letters --The state budget and the standard of living --A new young man at the organization department --Developing agricultural production --The correct handling of love, marriage, and family problems --The spring festival --Lei Feng, Chairman Mao's good fighter --Housing in Shanghai --Red Guards --My accusations --The nature of diseases --Modern models for family life and marriage --Population control and the four modernizations.

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Published January 1, 1981
ISBN 3989153
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