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The Book of Swindles- Selections from a Late Ming Collection

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網友滿意度：



不論是在學生時期或開始工作後

我對語言一直都有難以言喻的嚮往~~

自英文的從國中啟蒙

能夠用其他語言的邏輯來思考事情

也是一件很有趣的一件事

跟一般人喜歡用吃吃喝喝出遊玩來打發時間

我更喜歡用書籍安靜的充實自己

所以特別跟大家推薦我目前在看的

The Book of Swindles- Selections from a Late Ming Collection

非常好上手、條理分明

對於希望入門別太難的人很適合

而且這最大的成就感就是用新學的

語言查資料了XD

看自己key出之前完全不了解的文字或音

真的有滿台中水晶專賣店滿的感動啊~~

希望推薦的這本書能夠讓大家都能

感受或得知識的喜悅!

一起讀書向前邁進吧!





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This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks extorts money from a powerful official and then spends it on whoring. A rich student tries to bribe the chief examiner, only to hand his money to an imposter. A eunuch kidnaps boys and consumes their ＂essence＂ in an attempt to regrow his penis. These are just a few of the entertaining and surprising tales to be found in this seventeenth-century work, said to be the earliest Chinese collection of swindle stories.

The Book of Swindles, compiled by an obscure writer from southern China, presents a fascinating tableau of criminal ingenuity. The flourishing economy of the late Ming period created overnight fortunes for merchants—and gave rise to a host of smooth operators, charlatans, forgers, and imposters seeking to siphon off some of the new wealth. The Book of Swindles, which was ostensibly written as a manual for self-protection in this shifting and unstable world, also offers an expert guide to the art of deception. Each story comes with commentary by the author, Zhang Yingyu, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle. This volume, which contains annotated translations of just over half of the eighty-odd stories in Zhang’s original collection, provides a wealth of detail on social life during the late Ming and offers words of warning for a world in peril.

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• 作者： Yingyu, Zhang/ Rea, Christopher (TRN)/ Rusk, Bruce (TRN)
• 原文出版社：Columbia Univ Pr
• 出版日期：2017/09/05
• 語言：英文

The Book of Swindles- Selections from a Late Ming Collection