The Kan Ying Pien: Book of Rewards and Punishments:The Chinese Text with Introduction, Translation and Notes

An excerpt from the INTRODUCTION.
SECTION I. TRACTS IN CHINESE LITERATURE. The tract, as a means of publishing in a popular form to the common people, the thoughts and sayings of wise men, has long been used in China. With the invention of printing during the T'ang dynasty, and its rapid development in the succeeding period, this form of literature soon became general, and increased by leaps and bounds. Since that time, an immense development has taken place, and a great part of the literat...