More Swindles from the Late Ming : Sex, Scams and Sorcery, Paperback by Zhang...-image

More Swindles from the Late Ming : Sex, Scams and Sorcery, Paperback by Zhang...

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Number of Pages: 240 Pages Item Weight: 10.7 Oz Publisher: Columbia University Press Book Title: More Swindles from the Late Ming : Sex, Scams, and Sorcery Publication Year: 2024 Format: Trade Paperback Language: English Item Length: 8.5 in gtin13: 9780231212458 Illustrator: Yes Item Width: 5.5 in Genre: Social Science, Literary Collections, History Book Series: Translations from the Asian Classics Ser. Item Height: 0.5 in Author: Yingyu Zhang Topic: Asian / Chinese, Sociology / General, Asia / China ISBN: 9780231212458

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More Swindles from the Late Ming : Sex, Scams and Sorcery, Paperback by Zhang, Yingyu; Rusk, Bruce (TRN); Rea, Christopher G. (TRN), ISBN 0231212453, ISBN-13 9780231212458, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for traveling merchants. A wealthy widow is drugged and robbed by a lodger posing as a well-to-do student. Vengeful judges and corrupt clerks pervert the course of justice. Cunning soothsayers spur on a plot to overthrow the emperor. Yet good sometimes triumphs, as when amateur sleuths track down a crew of homicidal boatmen or a cold-case murder is exposed by a frog. These are just a few of the tales of crime and depravity appearing in More Swindles from the Late Ming , a book that offers a panorama of vice—and words of warning—from one seventeenth-century writer. This companion volume to Th of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection presents sensational stories of scams that range from the ingenious to the absurd to the lurid, many featuring sorcery, sex, and extreme violence. Together, the two volumes represent the first complete translation into any language of a landmark Chinese anthology, making an essential contribution to the global literature of trickery and fraud. An introduction explores the geography of grift, the role of sex and family relations, and the portrayal of Buddhist clergy and others claiming supernatural powers. Opening a window onto the colorful world of crime and deception in late imperial China, this book testifies to the enduring popularity of stories about scoundrels and their schemes.

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