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

McNicholas, Mark

ISBN 10: 0295742704 / ISBN 13: 9780295742700

Published by University of Washington Press, 2017

About this Item

xiv, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295742704
• ISBN 13: 9780295742700
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • China

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Mark McNicholas is associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College.