Mark McNicholas

Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China (eBook, ePUB)

Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295806235
• Artikelnr.: 49046242

Autorenporträt

Mark McNicholas is associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College.