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Betting on the civil service examinations : the lottery in late Qing China
- Title
- Betting on the civil service examinations : the lottery in late Qing China / En Li.
- Author
- Li, En, 1982-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 348 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Weixing was a highly-organized lottery practice wherein people bet on the surnames of which candidates would pass the civil and military examinations in China. This book reconstructs the inner mechanisms of Weixing and other lottery games and traces a series of institutional revenue innovations surrounding lottery regulation from the 1850s to the early 1900s, depicting an expansive community created by the lottery with cultural and informational channels stretching around the world."--
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 463
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 463.
- Subject
- 1800-1912
- Lotteries > China > History > 19th century
- Civil service > China > Examinations > History > 19th century
- Lotteries > Law and legislation > History > China > 19th century
- Gambling > China > History > 19th century
- Lottery tickets > China > History > 19th century
- Revenue > China > History > 19th century
- Civil service > Examinations
- Gambling
- Lotteries
- Lotteries > Law and legislation
- Lottery tickets
- Manners and customs
- Revenue
- Guangdong Sheng (China) > Social life and customs > 19th century
- China > History > 1861-1912
- China
- China > Guangdong Sheng
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English; some words and phrases in Chinese.
- Contents
- The History of Gaming, Gambling, and the Lottery -- The Community that the Lottery Made -- The Art of Betting -- Government Regulation, 1861-84 -- The Case of 1885: Restoration and Aftermath -- The Crossroads of 1885: Zhang Zhidong in a "Season of Existential Crisis" -- The Cantonese Origin of a Transnational Practice .
- ISBN
- 9780674293779
- 0674293770
- 9780674293830
- 0674293835
- LCCN
- 2023011217
- OCLC
- on1369679438
- 1369679438
- SCSB-14588046
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries