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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2)

Note 505 — XCVII. BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.

Herbert Allen Giles translation

Pieces of silver and gold paper made up to represent the ordinary Chinese “shoes” of bullion (See No. XVIII., note 133), and burnt for the use of the dead. Generally known to foreigners in China as “joss-paper.” return to footnote anchor 505 return to footnote anchor 535 return to footnote 614

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