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 / Mark McNicholas.
- Published by
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv,265 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- 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.
- Call number
- JFE 16-3597
- Note
- "A China Program book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
- Author
- McNicholas, Mark, author.
- Title
- Forgery and impersonation in imperial China : popular deceptions and the high Qing state / Mark McNicholas.
- Publisher
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
- Chronological term
- 1644-1912
- LCCN
- 2015029056
- ISBN
- 9780295995090 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
- 0295995092 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JFE 16-3597