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

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

von: Mark P. McNicholas

University of Washington Press, 2016

ISBN: 9780295806235 , 280 Seiten

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


 

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.