- Bib ID:
- 10007249
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Li, En, 1982-, author
- Description:
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- Cambridge (Massachusetts) ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023
- ©2023
- xxiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780674293779
- 9780674293830
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 463.
- Summary:
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"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."--.
- Full contents:
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- 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 .
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English; some words and phrases in Chinese.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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