Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State (China Program Books (Hardcover)) 9780295995090, 0295995092

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials o

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Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State (China Program Books (Hardcover))
9780295995090, 0295995092

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