Translator’s summary: This chapter includes the story of the sadistic Duke Ling of Jin, his persecution of the exemplary grand officer Zhao Dun, and his suffering assassination as a result. The commentary’s treatment of Zhao Dun, a good man involved in a foul crime (assassination) against a bad man, is fittingly ambivalent. The last entry introduces the lewdly disposed Duke Ling of Chen, whose
... [Show full abstract] comeuppance awaits.