2017/12/31 by Ying-Yu Zhang · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Educational Leadership and Practices #History #Jungian Analytical Psychology #Poetry Analysis and Criticism
paper · doi:10.7312/zhan17862
openalex publication_date 2017/12/31 · openalex created_date 2018/09/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
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.