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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection - Translations from the Asian Classics
Yingyu Zhang
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.
272 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 5, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231178624 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 147 × 21 mm · 432 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Rea, Christopher G. |
| Translator | Rusk, Bruce |
