S9E09 First Strike

The Chinese Sayings Podcast by Laszlo Montgomery

Jun 16, 202406:55Society & Culture

Season 9 is starting to wind down. For the ninth chengyu of the season, we take Sima Qian's "Record of the Grand Historian" and open to the chapter on Xiang Yu. This time we look at the story of Xiān Fā Zhì Rén 先发制人 . In...

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