Chinese

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Chinese surnames for Jews

all pun with “veil” & “cover”

Confucius: Xue Er

is a book that explains ruling through deception

Fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)

is a Chinese pun with “trading” & “substituting”

Great leap forward

puns with “great famine” — which was the result!

Hundred flowers campaign

puns with “defeat the people”

Mao Zedong

puns with “feigning the appearance of a worker”, his family are puns too

Sun Tzu: The Art of War

is perhaps a book that explains ruling through deception

Xu Guangqi: Treatise on Agriculture

is an introduction to deception

Yin & Yang

mean “shadow & light”, but pun with “secrecy & pretense” — the real options for spooks!