The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection (Translations from the Asian Classics)

by Bruce Rusk (Author), Bruce Rusk (Author), Christopher G. Rea (Author), Yingyu Zhang (Author)

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  Paperback
  2017

  $24.00

  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.