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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection By Zhang Yingyu. Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xxxvi + 226 pp. $26.00 / £22.00 (paper) - More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery By Zhang Yingyu. Translated by Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. xlix + 186 pp. $26.00 / £22.00 (paper).

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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection By Zhang Yingyu. Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xxxvi + 226 pp. $26.00 / £22.00 (paper)
More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery By Zhang Yingyu. Translated by Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. xlix + 186 pp. $26.00 / £22.00 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2025

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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , First View , pp. 1 - 4
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1 The original text can be found online in fantizi, https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=136159 and in jiantizi, https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=901675&remap=gb.

2 The Great Ming Code: Da Ming lü, trans. Jiang Yonglin (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005), 164. The Code further stipulates (27) that kidnapping is a crime that may not be pardoned under a general amnesty.

3 Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream III.2; Ecclesiastes 1:9.