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Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China : Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State
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Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China : Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State / Mark McNicholas.
ISBN
9780295806235
9780295995090
Publication
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2015]
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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