Dangers on the Road: Travelers, Laoguazei, and the State in Eighteenth-Century North China.

Autor: Chen, Huiying
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Zdroj: Late Imperial China; Jun2019, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p87-132, 46p
Abstrakt: This article reveals the story of the laoguazei which referred to a kind of robber-murderer that preyed on travelers and plagued the Central Plain of China during the first half of the 18th century.
Databáze: Complementary Index