The book of swindles :: selections from a late Ming collection /
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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 spends it on whoring. A rich student tries to bribe the chief examiner, only to hand his money to an imposter. A eunuch kidnaps boys and consumes their "essence" in an attempt to regrow his penis. These are just a few of the entertaining and surprising tales to be found in this seventeenth-century work, said to be the earliest Chinese collection of swindle stories. The Book of Swindles, compiled by an obscure writer from southern China, presents a fascinating tableau of criminal ingenuity. The flourishing economy of the late Ming period created overnight fortunes for merchants'and gave rise to a host of smooth operators, charlatans, forgers, and imposters seeking to siphon off some of the new wealth. The Book of Swindles, which was ostensibly written as a manual for self-protection in this shifting and unstable world, also offers an expert guide to the art of deception. Each story comes with commentary by the author, Zhang Yingyu, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle. This volume, which contains annotated translations of just over half of the eighty-odd stories in Zhang's original collection, provides a wealth of detail on social life during the late Ming and offers words of warning for a world in peril |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 226 pages) : maps |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references |
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| publisher | Columbia University Press, |
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| series | Translations from the Asian classics. |
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| spelling | Zhang, Yingyu, active 16th century-17th century, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpyqK3pwDjv8B9jqc4jG3 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004055021 Du pian xin shu. Selections. English The book of swindles : selections from a late Ming collection / Zhang Yingyu ; translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (xxxvi, 226 pages) : maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Translations from the Asian classics Translated from the Chinese. 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 spends it on whoring. A rich student tries to bribe the chief examiner, only to hand his money to an imposter. A eunuch kidnaps boys and consumes their "essence" in an attempt to regrow his penis. These are just a few of the entertaining and surprising tales to be found in this seventeenth-century work, said to be the earliest Chinese collection of swindle stories. The Book of Swindles, compiled by an obscure writer from southern China, presents a fascinating tableau of criminal ingenuity. The flourishing economy of the late Ming period created overnight fortunes for merchants'and gave rise to a host of smooth operators, charlatans, forgers, and imposters seeking to siphon off some of the new wealth. The Book of Swindles, which was ostensibly written as a manual for self-protection in this shifting and unstable world, also offers an expert guide to the art of deception. Each story comes with commentary by the author, Zhang Yingyu, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle. This volume, which contains annotated translations of just over half of the eighty-odd stories in Zhang's original collection, provides a wealth of detail on social life during the late Ming and offers words of warning for a world in peril Includes bibliographical references Misdirection and theft -- The bag drop -- Money changing -- Misrepresentation -- False relations -- Brokers -- Enticement to gambling -- Showing off wealth -- Scheming for wealth -- Robbery -- Violence -- On boats -- Poetry -- Fake silver -- Government underlings -- Marriage -- Illicit passion -- Women -- Kidnapping -- Corruption in education -- Monks and priests -- Alchemy -- Sorcery -- Pandering Print version record Swindlers and swindling China Anecdotes. Fraud China Anecdotes. Fraude Chine Anecdotes. LITERARY COLLECTIONS Asian Chinese. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Criminology. bisacsh Fraud fast Swindlers and swindling fast China fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdCqh8h6hJY7PT6MQW4bd Anecdotes fast Rea, Christopher G., translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010032576 Rusk, Bruce, 1972- translator. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwMJx3pgFfbVGgV7GRcpq http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012031849 Print version: Zhang, Yingyu, active 16th century-17th century. Du pian xin shu. Selections. English. Book of swindles. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231178624 (DLC) 2017000941 (OCoLC)985603757 Translations from the Asian classics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92042416 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1628799 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Zhang, Yingyu, active 16th century-17th century The book of swindles : selections from a late Ming collection / Translations from the Asian classics. Misdirection and theft -- The bag drop -- Money changing -- Misrepresentation -- False relations -- Brokers -- Enticement to gambling -- Showing off wealth -- Scheming for wealth -- Robbery -- Violence -- On boats -- Poetry -- Fake silver -- Government underlings -- Marriage -- Illicit passion -- Women -- Kidnapping -- Corruption in education -- Monks and priests -- Alchemy -- Sorcery -- Pandering Swindlers and swindling China Anecdotes. Fraud China Anecdotes. Fraude Chine Anecdotes. LITERARY COLLECTIONS Asian Chinese. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Criminology. bisacsh Fraud fast Swindlers and swindling fast |
| title | The book of swindles : selections from a late Ming collection / |
| title_alt | Du pian xin shu. |
| title_auth | The book of swindles : selections from a late Ming collection / |
| title_exact_search | The book of swindles : selections from a late Ming collection / |
| title_full | The book of swindles : selections from a late Ming collection / Zhang Yingyu ; translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk |
| title_fullStr | The book of swindles : selections from a late Ming collection / Zhang Yingyu ; translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk |
| title_full_unstemmed | The book of swindles : selections from a late Ming collection / Zhang Yingyu ; translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk |
| title_short | The book of swindles : |
| title_sort | book of swindles selections from a late ming collection |
| title_sub | selections from a late Ming collection / |
| topic | Swindlers and swindling China Anecdotes. Fraud China Anecdotes. Fraude Chine Anecdotes. LITERARY COLLECTIONS Asian Chinese. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Criminology. bisacsh Fraud fast Swindlers and swindling fast |
| topic_facet | Swindlers and swindling China Anecdotes. Fraud China Anecdotes. Fraude Chine Anecdotes. LITERARY COLLECTIONS Asian Chinese. SOCIAL SCIENCE Criminology. Fraud Swindlers and swindling China Anecdotes |
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