The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Christopher G. Rea, Yingyu Zhang, Bruce Rusk

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

Christopher G. Rea, Yingyu Zhang, Bruce Rusk

259 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

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This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious m...

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