中國第一部詐騙故事專集，栩栩如生刻畫晚明的社會百態與世道人心列文森獎得主雷勤風、明代研究會前會長阮思德聯手領路，知無不言，與當代看官細品24類騙術手法、84樁詐局人心行走江湖諸君仔細了：明搶易躲，暗騙難防。騙術釣人心，只有你想不到的餌，沒曾見不上鉤的魚！憑你道高三尺，它能魔高三丈；細聽本書逐個道來，或能僥倖一二逃出生天。林麗月（國立臺灣師範大學歷史學系名譽教授）傅月庵（作家、掃葉工房總編輯）孫中興（台灣大學社會學系名譽教授）——內行推薦無騙不成書，詐騙無奇不有，古今皆然《杜騙新書》由明萬曆年間張應俞所著，題名的「杜騙」一詞，表明其旨是令讀者免受欺詐之害，但杜騙之書亦可能是教人行騙的手冊，因此本書同時又被稱為《防騙經》和《騙經》。以「經」為名，是由於本書在特定領域具有權威性和全面性，成為一部具有核心地位的文本。鉤愈多樣魚更願上，晚明社會詐騙行為的全景式觀察全書依據欺詐手法、地點或行凶者分為...

A Wall Street Journal BestsellerA prescriptive and timely guide to finding success and happiness without a college degree by Ken Rusk, the Ohio-based entrepreneur and “million-dollar ditch digger” who believes it is time to celebrate the possibilities and financial opportunities that a Blue-Collar life can bring.A BLUE-COLLAR APPROACH TO CREATING A LIFE YOU LOVEIn a period of skyrocketing student loan debt ...

中國第一部詐騙故事專集，栩栩如生刻畫晚明的社會百態與世道人心列文森獎得主雷勤風、明代研究會前會長阮思德聯手領路，知無不言，與當代看官細品24類騙術手法、84樁詐局人心行走江湖諸君仔細了：明搶易躲，暗騙難防。騙術釣人心，只有你想不到的餌，沒曾見不上鉤的魚！憑你道高三尺，它能魔高三丈；細聽本書逐個道來，或能僥倖一二逃出生天。林麗月（國立臺灣師範大學歷史學系名譽教授）傅月庵（作家、掃葉工房總編輯）孫中興（台灣大學社會學系名譽教授）——內行推薦無騙不成書，詐騙無奇不有，古今皆然《杜騙新書》由明萬曆年間張應俞所著，題名的「杜騙」一詞，表明其旨是令讀者免受欺詐之害，但杜騙之書亦可能是教人行騙的手冊，因此本書同時又被稱為《防騙經》和《騙經》。以「經」為名，是由於本書在特定領域具有權威性和全面性，成為一部具有核心地位的文本。鉤愈多樣魚更願上，晚明社會詐騙行為的全景式觀察全書依據欺詐手法、地點或行凶者分為...

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 o...

A prescriptive and timely guide to finding success and happiness without a college degree by Ken Rusk, the Ohio-based entrepreneur and “million-dollar ditch digger” who believes it is time to celebrate the possibilities and financial opportunities that a Blue-Collar life can bring.A BLUE-COLLAR APPROACH TO CREATING A LIFE YOU LOVEIn a period of skyrocketing student loan debt without the promise of high-paying employment, and in an economy i...

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 peni...

“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.Contributors trace the organization of literary information across China’s three millennia of history, examinin...

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 peni...

“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.Contributors trace the organization of literary information across China’s three millennia of history, examinin...