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.
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.
Zhang Yingyu. Translated by Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea
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Translators' Introduction Explanation of Images at the Heads of Chapters in The Book of Swindles Type 1: Misdirection and Theft Encountering the Village Head and Then Stealing a Teapot Taking Advantage of the Bustle in a Shop to Brazenly Steal a Bolt of Cloth Borrowing a Storefront to Steal Cloth A Fake Carpenter Fixes a Moneychanger's Desk Drawer Type 3: Money Changing Swapping Fake Silver for a Pure Ingot Type 4: Misrepresentation Gulling People by Impersonating an Envoy from the Netherworld and Burning a Register Stealing Cloth by Pretending to Purchase It at an Alley Entrance Type 5: False Relations Incitement to Drinking and Whoring Ruins Health and Reputation Debts Accumulated Against a Friend's Property Bankrupt a Family Spurring a Friend to Launch a Fornication Suit to Ruin a Family Type 7: Enticement to Gambling Posing as a Wealthy Scion and Enlisting a Prostitute in a Gambling Scam A Gambling Addict Falls Prey to an Ingenious Trick Type 9: Scheming for Wealth Sedan Bearers Take a Confucian Apprentice off the Beaten Path Jacking Up the Price of Goods Only to End Up Ruined Type 10: Robbery A Fake Scion Rents Rooms and Robs a Widow Highway Robbery at a Shop in the Capital Type 11: Violence Acquiring a Bedroll by Marking It in Secret Stealing Silver by Throwing Lime in the Eyes Robbed by Crooks in Broad Daylight While Taking a Dump Type 12: On Boats Luggage Aboard a Boat Disappears, Along with a Servant A New Concubine Is Kidnapped from a Boat at Night A Purchase of Copperware Incites Boatmen to Murder Loading Cargo Onto the Wrong Boat Type 14: Fake Silver Passing Whitewashed Ingots in Maozhou Type 15: Government Underlings A Trumped-Up Death Sentence Is Commuted to Exile Type 16: Marriage Matchmakers Defraud a Provincial Graduate Seeking to Marry a Lady of Rank A Marriage Scam of Passion Comes to Light Because of a Frog Type 17: Illicit Passion Money and Guile Buy a Paper Maker's Wife A Monk Seduces a Tenant Farmer's Wife with a Length of Silk Robbed of Silver After Fornicating with a Maidservant Fleeced After an Affair with a Broker's Daughter Type 18: Women A Man Rapes His Daughter-in-Law and Then Tricks Her Mother Into Sex A Tenant Farmer's Wife Is Prostituted to Steal the Master's Land Type 19: Kidnapping A Gang Blinds and Amputates Children, Leaving Them Maimed Type 21: Monks and Priests Believing a Deceitful Monk Leads to a Chain of Calamities A Buddhist Monk Impersonates a Guardian Deity to Scam a Donation Scamming a Silk Robe with Feigned Foresight Type 22: Alchemy An Alchemist in a Pit Uses Talismans to Escape Type 23: Sorcery Magic Reflections in Water Incite a Rebellion A Villain Kidnaps Boys by Touching Their Face Appendix: Story Finding List Bibliography
Translators' Introduction Explanation of Images at the Heads of Chapters in The Book of Swindles Type 1: Misdirection and Theft Encountering the Village Head and Then Stealing a Teapot Taking Advantage of the Bustle in a Shop to Brazenly Steal a Bolt of Cloth Borrowing a Storefront to Steal Cloth A Fake Carpenter Fixes a Moneychanger's Desk Drawer Type 3: Money Changing Swapping Fake Silver for a Pure Ingot Type 4: Misrepresentation Gulling People by Impersonating an Envoy from the Netherworld and Burning a Register Stealing Cloth by Pretending to Purchase It at an Alley Entrance Type 5: False Relations Incitement to Drinking and Whoring Ruins Health and Reputation Debts Accumulated Against a Friend's Property Bankrupt a Family Spurring a Friend to Launch a Fornication Suit to Ruin a Family Type 7: Enticement to Gambling Posing as a Wealthy Scion and Enlisting a Prostitute in a Gambling Scam A Gambling Addict Falls Prey to an Ingenious Trick Type 9: Scheming for Wealth Sedan Bearers Take a Confucian Apprentice off the Beaten Path Jacking Up the Price of Goods Only to End Up Ruined Type 10: Robbery A Fake Scion Rents Rooms and Robs a Widow Highway Robbery at a Shop in the Capital Type 11: Violence Acquiring a Bedroll by Marking It in Secret Stealing Silver by Throwing Lime in the Eyes Robbed by Crooks in Broad Daylight While Taking a Dump Type 12: On Boats Luggage Aboard a Boat Disappears, Along with a Servant A New Concubine Is Kidnapped from a Boat at Night A Purchase of Copperware Incites Boatmen to Murder Loading Cargo Onto the Wrong Boat Type 14: Fake Silver Passing Whitewashed Ingots in Maozhou Type 15: Government Underlings A Trumped-Up Death Sentence Is Commuted to Exile Type 16: Marriage Matchmakers Defraud a Provincial Graduate Seeking to Marry a Lady of Rank A Marriage Scam of Passion Comes to Light Because of a Frog Type 17: Illicit Passion Money and Guile Buy a Paper Maker's Wife A Monk Seduces a Tenant Farmer's Wife with a Length of Silk Robbed of Silver After Fornicating with a Maidservant Fleeced After an Affair with a Broker's Daughter Type 18: Women A Man Rapes His Daughter-in-Law and Then Tricks Her Mother Into Sex A Tenant Farmer's Wife Is Prostituted to Steal the Master's Land Type 19: Kidnapping A Gang Blinds and Amputates Children, Leaving Them Maimed Type 21: Monks and Priests Believing a Deceitful Monk Leads to a Chain of Calamities A Buddhist Monk Impersonates a Guardian Deity to Scam a Donation Scamming a Silk Robe with Feigned Foresight Type 22: Alchemy An Alchemist in a Pit Uses Talismans to Escape Type 23: Sorcery Magic Reflections in Water Incite a Rebellion A Villain Kidnaps Boys by Touching Their Face Appendix: Story Finding List Bibliography
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