Sumptuary Regulations
Excerpt from essay on “carriages and dress”
This translation of Mingshi 6/68/1672, from Craig Clunas, “Regulation of Consumption and the Institution of Correct Morality by the Ming State,” in Norms and the State, is posted with kind permission from Tanja Cowall at Brill, August 11, 2020.
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