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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, Yingyu Zhang
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- The Book of Swindles
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Yingyu Zhang
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0231178638
- ISBN13
- 9780231178631
- Series
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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.