Yingyu Zhang

Broschiertes Buch

More Swindles from the Late Ming

Sex, Scams, and Sorcery

Übersetzer: Rusk, Bruce; Rea, Christopher G.

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Zhang Yingyu (fl. 1612-1617) lived during the Wanli period (1573-1620) of the Ming dynasty. Bruce Rusk is an associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. He is coeditor of Literary Information in China: A History (Columbia, 2021), among other books. Christopher Rea is a professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. His books include Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949 (Columbia, 2021). Rusk and Rea are the translators of The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection (Columbia, 2017).

Produktdetails

• Translations from the Asian Classics
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780231212458
• ISBN-10: 0231212453
• Artikelnr.: 70676113