Dong Tiezhu 
Excellent Actors Become Officials — Thirty-six Strategies in Shi Shuo Xin Yu 

When the court and society of the Wei and Jin Dynasties became the stage for celebrities to show off their acting skills, they were ecstatic, arrogant, beautiful, and virtuous… Is it true temperament, or a carefully crafted "personality"? What the book shows us is another dimension of the group portraits of Wei and Jin scholars.