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Estate and Family Management in the Later Han as Seen in the Monthly Instructions for the Four Classes of People

Estate and Family Management in the Later Han as Seen in the Monthly Instructions for the Four... ESTATE AND FAMILY MANAGEMENT IN THE LATER HAN AS SEEN IN THE MONTHLY INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FOUR CLASSES OF PEOPLE BY PATRICIA EBREY (University of Illinois, Urbana) The Ssu-min yiieh-ling Monthly Instructions for the Four Classes of People by Ts'ui Shih (& %) (c. io-c. 170) 1) is the first work in the Chinese tradition to put practical information about daily activities into the form of a monthly guide. This text contains information about religious, social, and economic organization that cannot be found in other places. Its value, however, is not simply as a sourcebook of early references to technical procedures or religious practices. Above all, it provides the most complete account of the activities of the farming estate of a middle-level official in the Later Han (25-220). This paper will examine the Monthly Intsructions, paying attention especially to the ways it can supplement other works, such as the standard histories, as a source for Later Han social history. _ In the Former Han (206 BC - AD 9), particularly in the second century BC, small independent farmers were quite common 2). However, 1) The only doubt about Ts'ui Shih as author is the fact that the work http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1974 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4995
eISSN
1568-5209
DOI
10.1163/156852074X00110
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ESTATE AND FAMILY MANAGEMENT IN THE LATER HAN AS SEEN IN THE MONTHLY INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FOUR CLASSES OF PEOPLE BY PATRICIA EBREY (University of Illinois, Urbana) The Ssu-min yiieh-ling Monthly Instructions for the Four Classes of People by Ts'ui Shih (& %) (c. io-c. 170) 1) is the first work in the Chinese tradition to put practical information about daily activities into the form of a monthly guide. This text contains information about religious, social, and economic organization that cannot be found in other places. Its value, however, is not simply as a sourcebook of early references to technical procedures or religious practices. Above all, it provides the most complete account of the activities of the farming estate of a middle-level official in the Later Han (25-220). This paper will examine the Monthly Intsructions, paying attention especially to the ways it can supplement other works, such as the standard histories, as a source for Later Han social history. _ In the Former Han (206 BC - AD 9), particularly in the second century BC, small independent farmers were quite common 2). However, 1) The only doubt about Ts'ui Shih as author is the fact that the work

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1974

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