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Note on Pronunciation

Preface

1 Loss of One Hair from Nine Oxen

2 Precious Treasure Worth Cherishing

3 One Written Word is Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold

4 Binding your Feet to Prevent your own Progress

5 Clapping with One Hand Produces No Sound

6 When the Map is Unrolled, the Dagger is Revealed

7 Burning Books and Burying Scholars

8 Words that Would Cause a Nation to Perish

9 Pointing to a Deer and Calling it a Horse

10 Little Sparrows with Dreams of Swans

11 Destroy the Cooking Cauldrons and Sink the Boats

12 This Young Man is Worth Educating

13 Banquet at Wild Goose Gate

14 Dressed in the Finest Brocades to Parade in the Dark of Night

15 Plot to Sow Discord and Create Enmity

16 The Heart of the People Belongs to Han

17 The Human Heart is Difficult to Fathom

18 Devising Strategies in a Command Tent

List of Proverbs

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Also by Adeline Yen Mah

Copyright

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