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

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Authors:Yingyu Zhang
Pages:updating ...
Year:2024
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Language:english
File Size:3.67 MB
Format:epub
Categories: Ebooks

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

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...

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