Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State by McNicholas, Mark

Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780295742700)

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Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State by McNicholas, Mark

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

$35.00
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State by McNicholas, Mark

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

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Mark McNicholas
ISBN-10: 0295742704
ISBN-13: 9780295742700
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2017
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.70d
By Mark McNicholas
By Mark McNicholas
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Mark McNicholas is associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College.

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