The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.
The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.
Zhang Yingyu. Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk.
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Maps Translators' Introduction Type 1: Misdirection and Theft Stealing Silk with a Decoy Horse Handing Over Silver Before Running Off with It A Clever Trick on a Pig Seller Pilfering Green Cloth by Pretending to Steal a Goose Type 2: The Bag Drop Dropping a Bag by the Roadside to Set Up a Switcheroo Type 3: Money Changing A Daoist in a Boat Exchanges Some Gold Type 4: Misrepresentation Forged Letters from the Education Intendant Report Auspicious Dreams Using Broom Handles to Play a Joke on Sedan Bearers Type 5: False Relations Inciting a Friend to Commit Adultery and Swindling Away His Land Type 6: Brokers A Conniving Broker Takes Paper and Ends Up Paying with His Daughter A Destitute Broker Takes Some Wax to Pay Off Old Debts Type 7: Enticement to Gambling A Stern Warning to a Gambler Provokes Others to Entice Him to Relapse Type 8: Showing Off Wealth Impersonating the Son of an Official to Steal a Merchant's Silver Flashy Clothing Incites Larceny Type 9: Scheming for Wealth Stealing a Business Partner's Riches Only to Lose One's Own Haughtiness Leads to a Lawsuit That Harms Wealth and Health Type 10: Robbery Robbing a Pawnshop by Pretending to Leave Goods There Type 11: Violence Sticking a Plaster in the Eyes to Steal a Silver Ingot Type 12: On Boats Bringing Mirrors Aboard a Boat Invites a Nefarious Plot Porters Run Off with Cargo from a Boat Type 13: Poetry Swindling the Salt Commissioner While Disguised as Daoists Chen Quan Scams His Way Into the Arms of a Famous Courtesan Type 14: Fake Silver Planting a Fake Ingot to Swindle a Farmer Type 15: Government Underlings Swindled on the Way Out of a Court Hearing An Officer Reprimands a Captured Criminal in Order to Halve His Flogging Type 16: Marriage Marrying a Street Cleaner and Provoking His Death Taking a Concubine from Another Province Leads to a Disastrous Lawsuit Type 17: Illicit Passion A Geomancer Uses His Wife to Steal a Good Seed Type 18: Women Coaxing a Sister-in-Law Into Adultery to Scam Oil and Meat Three Women Ride Off on Three Horses A Buddhist Nun Scatters Prayer Beads to Lure a Woman Into Adultery Type 19: Kidnapping A Eunuch Cooks Boys to Make a Tonic of Male Essence Type 20: Corruption in Education Pretending to Present Silver to an Education Commissioner Affixing Seals in a Functionary's Chambers Silver with Sham Seals Is Switched for Bricks Robbed by a Gang While Sealing Silver in an Unoccupied Room A Fake Freeloader Takes Over a Con Money Stashed with an Innkeeper Is Burgled Type 21: Monks and Priests A Buddhist Monk Identifies a Cow as His Mother Eating Human Fetuses to Fake Fasting Type 22: Alchemy Trusting in Alchemy Harms an Entire Family A Foiled Alchemy Scam Leads to a Poisoning Type 23: Sorcery Using Dream Sorcery to Rob a Family Type 24: Pandering A Father Searching for His Wastrel Son Himself Falls Into Whoring Appendix 1: Preface to A New Book for Foiling Swindlers: Strange Tales from the Rivers and Lakes (1617), by Xiong Zhenji Appendix 2: Story Finding List Bibliography
Maps Translators' Introduction Type 1: Misdirection and Theft Stealing Silk with a Decoy Horse Handing Over Silver Before Running Off with It A Clever Trick on a Pig Seller Pilfering Green Cloth by Pretending to Steal a Goose Type 2: The Bag Drop Dropping a Bag by the Roadside to Set Up a Switcheroo Type 3: Money Changing A Daoist in a Boat Exchanges Some Gold Type 4: Misrepresentation Forged Letters from the Education Intendant Report Auspicious Dreams Using Broom Handles to Play a Joke on Sedan Bearers Type 5: False Relations Inciting a Friend to Commit Adultery and Swindling Away His Land Type 6: Brokers A Conniving Broker Takes Paper and Ends Up Paying with His Daughter A Destitute Broker Takes Some Wax to Pay Off Old Debts Type 7: Enticement to Gambling A Stern Warning to a Gambler Provokes Others to Entice Him to Relapse Type 8: Showing Off Wealth Impersonating the Son of an Official to Steal a Merchant's Silver Flashy Clothing Incites Larceny Type 9: Scheming for Wealth Stealing a Business Partner's Riches Only to Lose One's Own Haughtiness Leads to a Lawsuit That Harms Wealth and Health Type 10: Robbery Robbing a Pawnshop by Pretending to Leave Goods There Type 11: Violence Sticking a Plaster in the Eyes to Steal a Silver Ingot Type 12: On Boats Bringing Mirrors Aboard a Boat Invites a Nefarious Plot Porters Run Off with Cargo from a Boat Type 13: Poetry Swindling the Salt Commissioner While Disguised as Daoists Chen Quan Scams His Way Into the Arms of a Famous Courtesan Type 14: Fake Silver Planting a Fake Ingot to Swindle a Farmer Type 15: Government Underlings Swindled on the Way Out of a Court Hearing An Officer Reprimands a Captured Criminal in Order to Halve His Flogging Type 16: Marriage Marrying a Street Cleaner and Provoking His Death Taking a Concubine from Another Province Leads to a Disastrous Lawsuit Type 17: Illicit Passion A Geomancer Uses His Wife to Steal a Good Seed Type 18: Women Coaxing a Sister-in-Law Into Adultery to Scam Oil and Meat Three Women Ride Off on Three Horses A Buddhist Nun Scatters Prayer Beads to Lure a Woman Into Adultery Type 19: Kidnapping A Eunuch Cooks Boys to Make a Tonic of Male Essence Type 20: Corruption in Education Pretending to Present Silver to an Education Commissioner Affixing Seals in a Functionary's Chambers Silver with Sham Seals Is Switched for Bricks Robbed by a Gang While Sealing Silver in an Unoccupied Room A Fake Freeloader Takes Over a Con Money Stashed with an Innkeeper Is Burgled Type 21: Monks and Priests A Buddhist Monk Identifies a Cow as His Mother Eating Human Fetuses to Fake Fasting Type 22: Alchemy Trusting in Alchemy Harms an Entire Family A Foiled Alchemy Scam Leads to a Poisoning Type 23: Sorcery Using Dream Sorcery to Rob a Family Type 24: Pandering A Father Searching for His Wastrel Son Himself Falls Into Whoring Appendix 1: Preface to A New Book for Foiling Swindlers: Strange Tales from the Rivers and Lakes (1617), by Xiong Zhenji Appendix 2: Story Finding List Bibliography
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