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Author(s):	Yingyu Zhang

Date:	2024	Format:	azw3	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0231178638
Pages:	208	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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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 merchantsand gave rise to a host of smooth operators, charlatans, forgers, and imposters seeking to siphon off some of the new wealth.
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