Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China
Subtitle: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780295995090
Subjects: Feminism, religious aspects; Muslim women; Women's rights; Women, social conditions; Women, malaysia
Description: "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 trangressions"--Jacket.