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The good coyote?
(Or this one.) 権謀術数 ken.bou.ju-.ssuu Literally: authority – scheme – technique – number Alternately: A plan or strategy to fool people. Wiles; trickery; Machiavellianism. Notes: Apparently this compound comes to us from Zhu Xi’s (朱熹) The Great Learning (大学).
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Tagged Coyote, 術数, Machiavellianism, scheme, trickery, 大学, 朱熹, 権謀
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