Forgery and impersonation in imperial China : popular deceptions and the high Qing state
Title:
Forgery and impersonation in imperial China : popular deceptions and the high Qing state
A China Program book
China Program book.
Author:
McNicholas, Mark, author.
ISBN:
9780295995090
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Seattle ; London : A China Program Book, University of Washington Press, [2016]
Physical Description:
xiv, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series:
A China Program book
China Program book.
Contents:
Introduction: crimes, commoners, and the state -- Meng Guangzu: the Prince's tour and the struggle for the throne -- Secret agents: high tide and disappearance, 1723-1800 -- "En route to my post" and other tall tales: phony officials on the move -- Phony cops: the persistence of police impersonation -- Forgery: gaining trust in a land of documents and seals -- Bad proxies and bogus credentials: forgery and the purchase of official rank -- From politics to money: legal reckoning in the high Qing -- Conclusion.
Abstract:
"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 trangressions"--Jacket.
Genre:
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
Field 805:
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