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TOU
LIANG HUAN ZHU
Replace the beams and pillars
with rotten timber.
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JIA CHI BU
DIAN
Play dumb, remain smart.
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ZHI SANG
MA HUAI
Point at the mulberry and curse
the locust.
Prov: Kill the chicken
to scare the monkey.
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SHANG WU
CHOU TI
Pull down the ladder after
ascent.
Cortez burnt his
ships on arriving in Mexico to prevent his men from
returning home. They then had two choices - conqure
or perish. They conqured.
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SHU SHANG
KAI HUA
Deck the tree with bogus blossom.
Emperor Yangdi orderd
the populus to put false blossom on every tree in
the land to impress visiting rich merchants. Today
the media is the main tool of properganda.
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FAN KE WEI
ZHU
Make the guest and host change
places.
In Chinese
millitary terms one who leaves his territory to fight
is the guest.
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