A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence:
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 656pp. from front flap: "Huang Liu-hung was one of some 1,500 local magistrates in seventeenth-century China, and he wrote this book as a manual for other magistrates and their advisers. In it he presents his interpretation of proper official conduct and illustrates his points through human interest stories drawn from his own career. Only small portions of Huang's book have ever appeared in translation since it was first published in China in 1699. In it readers will find insight into everyday life and legal processes during the early Ch'ing period, as well as into the mentality of the ruling elite and its attitude toward the common people. Happiness and Benevolence also provides a basis for comparing China's present with its past, particularly in matters concerning the pursuit of ideological conformity and political control." Book VG+: touch of dust, else clean, square, tight, unmarked / DJ VG: mild age toning/rubbing, NOT clipped. Item #2383
ISBN: 0816508208
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