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The religious ethic and mercantile spirit in early modern China
- Title
- The religious ethic and mercantile spirit in early modern China / Ying-shih Yü ; translated by Yim-tze Kwong ; edited by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman.
- Author
- Yu, Yingshi
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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- Description
- xlii, 281 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Argues that during the late Imperial period, all three main religious strains in China embraced an ethic that everyone should engage in labor as a crucial component to their personal enlightenment and their duty to society. This is what brings together new Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism; new religious Daoism; and new Confucianism. All three new religions had to overcome traditional elitist biases and moral concerns about working for individual material results. To overcome traditional assumptions and practices, as well as to embrace the priority of working for one's livelihood, required the religious practitioners to resolve tensions within their own minds and often with precepts of earlier forms of their religious traditions. The final section of the book focuses on the changing social status of merchants, their enhanced self-confidence in their identity and profession, and their manifestation of the new work ethics in their mercantile activities, especially from 1500 to 1820"--
- Uniform Title
- Zhongguo jin shi zong jiao lun li yu shang ren jing shen. English
- Alternative Title
- Zhongguo jin shi zong jiao lun li yu shang ren jing shen.
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally titled: Zhongguo jinshi zongjiao lunli yu shangren jingshen.
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-2603
- ISBN
- 9780231200424
- 0231200420
- 9780231200431
- 0231200439
- LCCN
- 2020033582
- OCLC
- 1196820750
- Author
- Yu, Yingshi, author.
- Title
- The religious ethic and mercantile spirit in early modern China / Ying-shih Yü ; translated by Yim-tze Kwong ; edited by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Kwong, Charles Yim-tze, 1958- translator.Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Yü, Ying-shih, The religious ethic and mercantile spirit in early modern China New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. 9780231553605 (DLC) 2020033583
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-2603