The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China

Author/Contributor(s):	Yu, Ying-Shih
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	03/23/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yü offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China's early modern economy. He investigates how evolving forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism created and promulgated their own concepts of the work ethic from the late seventh century into the Qing dynasty.