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The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of divine reward to users "good" enough to accumulate

The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit

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    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    Publication Date: 7/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780691608792, 978-0691608792
    ISBN10: 0691608792

    Number of Pages: 300

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of divine reward to users "good" enough to accumulate

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