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The art of doing good: charity in late Ming China

Joanna Handlin Smith
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix)
  • CONVENTIONS, MEASUREMENTS, AND DYNASTIES (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I NEW ROUTINES: ASSOCIATIONS FOR DOING GOOD
    • 1. Societies for Liberating Animals (page 15)
    • 2. Early Benevolent Societies and Their Visionary Leaders (page 43)
    • 3. The Benevolent Society among Its Alternatives (page 72)
    • 4. Lectures for the Poor-and the Rich (page 102)
    • 5. A Benevolent Society Viewed from the Margins (page 123)
  • PART II ENACTING CHARITABLE ROUTINES DURING A CRISIS
    • 6. Mobilizing Food Relief (page 157)
    • 7. Aligning with Officials (page 193)
    • 8. Medical Relief and Other Good Deeds (page 220)
    • 9. Beliefs in Charity-and the Rhetoric of Beliefs (page 248)
    • Conclusion: From Moral Transformation toward the Legitimation of Wealth (page 279)
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS (page 287)
  • NOTES (page 289)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 351)
  • GLOSSARY (page 369)
  • INDEX (page 387)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CRI 16.2 (2009): 266-270 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/400158
AHR 115.2 (Apr. 2010): 514-515 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23302607
JAS 70.3 (Aug. 2011): 808-810 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41302406
BSOAS 73.2 (2010): 338-339 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25703042
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Published: c2009
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520253636 (hardcover)
  • 9780520943506 (ebook)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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