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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection

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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection - Zhang, Yingyu, and Rea, Christopher G (Translated by), and Rusk, Bruce (Translated by)
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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.

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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection 2017, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231178631

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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection 2017, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231178624

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