The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection

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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection

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.
  • Brand: Unbranded
  • Category: Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Publication Date: 2023-11-10
  • Publisher / Label: Columbia University Press
  • Author: Yingyu Zhang
  • Number of Pages: 272
  • Fruugo ID: 434307339-911514356
  • ISBN: 9780231178624

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