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.
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ISBN | 9780231178624 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Fester Einband |
Verlag | Columbia University Press |
Jahr | 20170905 |
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