The Book of Swindles Selections from a Late Ming Collection |
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| Author:
| Zhang, Yingyu |
| Translator:
| Rea, Christopher G.
Rusk, Bruce |
| Series title: | Translations from the Asian Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-17862-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2017 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.
The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.