Lu Ban-The Carpenter With an Inquiring Mind 10
A Child Cowherd Measures the Tree 13
Bi Sheng and Movable Type Printing 18
Clever Tong Hui Takes Back the Jade Hairpin 22
Doctor Hua Tuo-Miracle Worker 26
Wen Yanbo Uses Water to Get the Ball Back 30
Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant 34
Tiger and Yunnan Baiyao 38
Xu Tong Saves a Tree 42
Bitter Plums 46
Sima Guang Smashes a Vat 50
Zhuge Liang Graduates 55
Eloquent Kong Rong 61
A Little Boy of Waihuang and Hegemon of West Chu 66
"Drunken"Wang Xizhi 73
Whose Horse Ran Slowest? 77
Smart Boy 82
Cattle Dealer Drives Back the Qin 87
Sun Bin Rescues the State of Zhao 92
Sun Bin Kills Pang Juan by Using the Stoves 96
Openly Repairing the Plank Roads While Secretly Marching Towards Chencang 101
King of Shu Seeks Small Gains Only to Incur Huge Losses 106
The Empty Fort Strategy:Zhuge Liang Plays Music on the City Walls 111
Borrow Arrows in Thatched Boats 117
Cao Gui Awaits a Third Attack 123
Fighting With One's Back to the River 128
Stories of Wisdom Trick to Gain Time 133
Ji Xiaolan Escapes From Drowning in a Pool 138
Who Can Eat More Steamed Buns? 143
General Tian Ji's Story About Horse Racing 148
He Tang Eliminates the Traitor 153
Give the Fraud a Dose of His Own Medicine 158
A Trick to Find the Thief 163