The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection

Author/Contributor(s):	Zhang, Yingyu
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	09/05/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.