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A Cheat’s Hankerchief

This is a silk hankerchief from c.1860 used by one or more people to cheat1 on the Imperial Examinations.

Chinese cheating examinations

Via the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Here are a bunch of Art History Professors discussing this artifact and its history

  1. They’d use all sorts of things. Here’s something worn as underwear. ↩︎

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Posted 4th January 2021