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.

• | By (Author): Yingyu Zhang
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2017
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0231178638
• | ISBN-13: 9780231178631