One: Thinking; 1: Curtain Raiser; 2: Tall Man from Lu; 3: Little Jesus, Big Marx; 4: The Straw Dogs; 5: Government by Goodness; 6: The Day of the Kissingers; 7: The Mixmasters; 8: Machiavellissimo; Two: Fighting; 9: The Gentle Art of War; 10: The Downhill Struggle; 11: The Knight and the Nobody; 12: Armies for Two; 13: Empire for One; 14: Prologue to Chaos; 15: Talk of Ts’ao Ts’ao; 16: The Keys of the Kingdoms; 17: Chinese Cutthroat; 18: Third-Party Risk; 19: The Drama in Modern Dress; Three: Ruling; 20: The Case for Murder; 21: The Golden Rule of the Assassin; 22: The Soft Touch; 23: Absolute Scholarship Corrupts Absolutely; 24: The Hero Worshippers; 25: The Living Dead; 26: The Tongue and the Teeth; 27: All Chinese Are Brothers; 28: Barbarians in Perspective; 29: Democrazy; Four: Analyzing; 30: Past for Consumption; 31: Western Approaches; 32: From the Top