How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
The Heavenly Commandments, as state law.
Opium, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, footbinding, prostitution and the sale of women were all abolished, and the ten commandments were enforced with capital penalties. Women held military and administrative rank, which no Qing institution allowed — and men and women were also housed in separate camps and forbidden each other, while the leadership was exempt.
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