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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Zhang, Ying (History teacher) author.

Title: Confucian image politics : masculine morality in seventeenth-century China / Ying Zhang.

Other titles: Masculine morality in seventeenth-century China

Description: 1st edition. | Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016009721 | ISBN 9780295998534 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Political ethics—China—History—17th century. | Confucian ethics—China—History—17th century. | China—Officials and employees—Conduct of life—History—17th century.

Classification: LCC JQ1509.5.E8 Z4375 2016 | DDC 172.0951/09032—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016009721

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