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100 1 _aZhang, Yingyu, active 16th century-17th century
245 1 0 _a杜騙新書
246 1 _a杜骗新书
246 1 _aDu Pian Xin Shu
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2007
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Swindles
500 _aRelease date is 2007-12-24
520 _a"杜騙新書" by Zhang Yingyu is a short story collection published around 1617. Considered the first printed Chinese collection about fraud, it presents twenty-four categories of swindles from Ming dynasty society. Each tale of deception is followed by the author's moral commentary, sometimes praising the con artist's cleverness while condemning the victim's foolishness. The work blends elements from court case fiction, supernatural tales, and joke structures, offering insights into the risky world of traveling merchants and the art of trickery. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFraud -- China -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24021
999 _c65023
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