Includes indexes. Chinese collection.

Knowledge -- Learning the way; Porridge cakes -- Love for learning; Lamp of fireflies -- The four prohibitions; A doctor-traveler -- Inferring by analogy; Tones of the zither -- The ultimate joy; The plum blossom painter -- Morality -- Filial piety; Grandma and the office -- Righteousness and profit; The promissory notes -- Three introspections daily; Critics of the emperor -- Strength in adversity; A determined historian -- The long journey; Death of a premier -- Wisdom -- Self-reliance; The taste of gall -- Three beneficial friends; The slashed mat -- Words and deeds; Talking a good game -- Advancing and retreating; World and island -- Careers for scholars; A statesman of four reigns -- Government. -- Governing with virtue; A palace without a terrace -- Sovereigns and subjects; Three visits to a strategist -- Exemplary leaders; The flying general -- The upright above the crooked; A tattooed general -- Economy and education; The emperor's dictionary.