Böcker av Ying-shih Yu

This book by one of the most important historians of our time is an essential record of the cultural, political, and social transformations in modern Chinese history.

The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yu 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.