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.


Format Häftad Omfång 208 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Columbia University Press Utgivningsdatum 2017-09-05 ISBN 9780231178631