TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yu,Yingshi
AU  - Kwong,Yim tze
AU  - Tillman,Hoyt Cleveland
TI  - Religious ethic and mercantile spirit in early modern China 
SN  - 9780231200431
U1  - 299.51156440903 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Ethics
KW  - China
KW  - Business ethics
KW  - Religion
N1  - Originally title: Zhongguo jinshi zongjiao lunli yu shangren jingshen; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Argues that during the late Imperial period, all three main religious strains in China embraced an ethic that everyone should engage in labor as a crucial component to their personal enlightenment and their duty to society. This is what brings together new Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism; new religious Daoism; and new Confucianism. All three new religions had to overcome traditional elitist biases and moral concerns about working for individual material results. To overcome traditional assumptions and practices, as well as to embrace the priority of working for one's livelihood, required the religious practitioners to resolve tensions within their own minds and often with precepts of earlier forms of their religious traditions. The final section of the book focuses on the changing social status of merchants, their enhanced self-confidence in their identity and profession, and their manifestation of the new work ethics in their mercantile activities, especially from 1500 to 1820"--
ER  -