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Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State

Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State

Paperback

Chinese HistoryGeneral LawTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0295742704
ISBN13: 9780295742700
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.

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