This item is an Extremely Rare DVD-9 version for a Chinese drama show called Sun Zi Bing Fa Yu San Shi Liu Ji, literally Sun Tzu's The Art of War and the Thirty-Six Stratagems, it is a Chinese television series first broadcast in 2000. Set in the Warring States period of ancient China, the series tells the story of Sun Bin, a descendant of Sun Tzu, and his rival Pang Juan.
 

List of episodes

Each episode is named after one of the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

# Rough translation of title (in English) Original title (in Chinese)
1 Remove the ladder when the enemy has ascended to the roof 上屋抽梯
2 Hide a knife behind a smile 笑里藏刀
3 Feign madness but keep your balance 假痴不癫
4 Slough off the cicada's golden shell 金蝉脱壳
5 Sacrifice the plum tree to preserve the peach tree 李代桃僵
6 Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao 围魏救赵
7 Defeat the enemy by capturing their chief 擒贼擒王
8 Leisurely await for the laboured 以逸待劳
9 Create something from nothing 无中生有
10 Kill with a borrowed knife 借刀杀人
11 Loot a burning house 趁火打劫
12 Deceive the heavens to cross the ocean 瞒天过海
13 Replace the beams with rotten timbers 偷梁换柱
14 Obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo 假道伐虢
15 Make a sound in the east, then strike in the west 声东击西
16 The empty fort strategy 空城计
17 Let the enemy's own spy sow discord in the enemy camp 反间计
18 Deck the tree with false blossoms 树上开花
19 Tossing out a brick to get a jade gem 抛砖引玉
20 Disturb the water and catch a fish 混水摸鱼
21 Sneak through the passage of Chencang 暗渡陈仓
22 The beauty trap 美人计
23 Make the host and the guest exchange roles 反客为主
24 Point at the mulberry tree while cursing the locust tree 指桑骂槐
25 Chain stratagems 连环计
26 Befriend a distant state while attacking a neighbour 远交近攻
27 Stomp the grass to scare the snake 打草惊蛇
28 Entice the tiger to leave its mountain lair 调虎离山
29 In order to capture, one must let loose 欲擒故纵
30 Borrow a corpse to resurrect the soul 借尸还魂
31 Remove the firewood from under the pot 釜底抽薪
32 Take the opportunity to pilfer a goat 顺手牵羊
33 Shut the door to catch the thief 关门捉贼
34 Inflict injury on oneself to win the enemy's trust 苦肉计
35 Watch the fires burning across the river 隔岸观火
36 If all else fails, retreat 走为上
 
 
What are DVD-9 discs?
 
DVD-9 discs are one-sided, double layer recordable DVDs with a capacity of 8.5GB. The numbering after DVDs can be approximated to the capacity of the discs. For example DVD-5 discs can hold 4.7GB on a one-sided, single layer disc and DVD-18 can hold 17.4GB on a dual-side, dual-layer disc.
 
In double layer (also referred to as dual layer) DVD-9 discs, two layers of standard DVD-5 are joined together with a transparent spacer and a thin reflector between the two. The bottom layer is read and written to in exactly the same manner as DVD-5. Reading and writing to the second layer is achieved by the laser focusing a fraction of a millimeter beyond the first recording layer.