Fences in Ming China
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Fences in Ming China
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A fence or receiver was a merchant who bought and sold stolen goods. Fences were part of the extensive network of accomplices in the criminal underground of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. Their occupation entailed criminal activity, but as fences often acted as liaisons between the more respectable community to the underground criminals, they were seen as living a “precarious existence on the fringes of respectable society”. A fence worked alongside bandits, but in a different line of wor
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2019-01-09T05:13:42Z
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2024-09-04T19:07:42Z
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