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.
- | Author: Yingyu Zhang
- | Publisher: Columbia University Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 023117862X
- | ISBN-13: 9780231178624