Mark Mcnicholas: 1 book
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China
Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
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.
