The Book of Swindles : : Selections from a Late Ming Collection / / Yingyu Zhang.
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 monks extorts money from a powerful official and then...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Translations from the Asian Classics
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Translators' Introduction
- Type 1: Misdirection and Theft
- Type 2: The Bag Drop
- Type 3: Money Changing
- Type 4: Misrepresentation
- Type 5: False Relations
- Type 6: Brokers
- Type 7: Enticement to Gambling
- Type 8: Showing Off Wealth
- Type 9: Scheming for Wealth
- Type 10: Robbery
- Type 11: Violence
- Type 12: On Boats
- Type 13: Poetry
- Type 14: Fake Silver
- Type 15: Government Underlings
- Type 16: Marriage
- Type 17: Illicit Passion
- Type 18: Women
- Type 19: Kidnapping
- Type 20: Corruption in Education
- Type 21: Monks and Priests
- Type 22: Alchemy
- Type 23: Sorcery
- Type 24: Pandering
- Appendix 1. Preface to A New Book for Foiling Swindlers: Strange Tales from the Rivers and Lakes
- Appendix 2. Story Finding List
- Bibliography