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

More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery

A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get...
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Author: Yingyu Zhang
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More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery by Zhang, Yingyu

More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery

$39.26

More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery

$39.26
Author: Yingyu Zhang
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 The Book 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.

Author: Yingyu Zhang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780231212458

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