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The art of doing good : charity in late Ming China / Joanna Handlin Smith.
LIBRA HV418 .S57 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Joanna Handlin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charities--China--History.
- Charities.
- Charity organization--China--History.
- Charity organization.
- History.
- China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 405 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Part 1 New Routines: Associations for Doing Good
- 1 Societies for Liberating Animals
- 2 Early Benevolent Societies and Their Visionary Leaders
- 3 The Benevolent Society among Its Alternatives
- 4 Lectures for the Poor-and the Rich
- 5 A Benevolent Society Viewed from the Margins
- Part 2 Enacting Charitable Routines during a Crisis
- 6 Mobilizing Food Relief
- 7 Aligning with Officials
- 8 Medical Relief and Other Good Deeds
- 9 Beliefs in Charity-and the Rhetoric of Beliefs.
- Notes:
- "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim. p.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-368) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520253636
- 0520253639
- OCLC:
- 257554848
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