Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.