TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mah,Adeline Yen
TI  - One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold
SN  - 0007124503 :
AV  - PN 6519.C5 26 2002a
U1  - 951 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London
PB  - HarperCollins
KW  - Yen Mah, Adeline,
KW  - Maxims, Chinese
KW  - Proverbs, Chinese
KW  - fast
KW  - China
KW  - History
N1  - Includes index; "A memoir of China's past through its proverbs"--Dust jacket; Includes index; Loss of one hair from nine oxen -- Precious treasure worth cherishing -- One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold -- Binding your feet to prevent your own progress -- Clapping with one hand produces no sound -- When the map is unrolled, the dagger is revealed -- Burning books and burying scholars -- Words that would cause a nation to perish -- Pointing to a deer and calling it a horse -- Little sparrows with dreams of swans -- Destroying the cooking cauldrons and sinking the boats -- This young man is worth educating -- Banquet at wild goose gate -- Dressed in the finest brocades to parade in the dark of night -- Plot to sow discord and create enmity -- The heart of the people belongs to Han -- The human heart is difficult to fathom -- Devising strategies in a command tent
N2  - A personal account and lively history of 1st-century China, from when most Chinese proverbs are drawn, when a scholar's conversation would be studded with appropriate sayings, and a man's status in society would be defined by his use and knowledge of proverbs. Much of this is still true today
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