All Mine!: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China

by Stephen Owen

Under the Song Dynasty, China experienced rapid commercial growth and monetization of the economy. In the same period, the austere ethical turn that led to neo-Confucianism was becoming increasingly prevalent in the imperial bureaucracy and literati culture. Tracing the influences of these trends in Chinese intellectual history, All Mine! explores the varied ways in which eleventh-century writers worked through the conflicting values of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231203101
• ISBN13: 9780231203104
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"