Smith Joanna Handlin:
The Art Of Doing Good
Charity In Late Ming China
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2009
Hardback, 424 pages
Size: 235x159 mm
ISBN: 9780520253636
ISBN-10: 0520253639
List price: £24.95
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The Art Of Doing Good
Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, this title abandons the facile explanation that charity was a response to poverty and social unrest. It examines the social and economic changes that stimulated the fervor for doing good.
