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Ink-wash drawing of a scholar's table: a corded stack of thread-bound volumes, one open beside them, with a brush resting on an inkstone.

Chinese Culture 6 min

What Links the 36 Stratagems to the Art of War's 13 Chapters

The two are separate books a thousand years apart, so a stratagem filed under a chapter is a reading aid, not a lineage....

Eva Chin

Pub. 13 Aug

A worn mid-century booklet of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, of the kind the collection first surfaced in.

Chinese Culture 6 min

How Well Attested Are the 36 Stratagems?

The Thirty-Six Stratagems are introduced as ancient military history. Reading all thirty-six origin texts end to end, tw...

Eva Chin

Pub. 13 Aug

A calligraphy brush drawing a broad ink stroke on white paper.

Chinese Culture 10 min

How Chinese Given Names Actually Work — and Why Everyone Picks the Same Ones

A person could once carry four names: a milk name, a generation character shared with every cousin, a given name, and a...

Eva Chin

Pub. 1 Aug