Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin was in the habit of inviting potential rivals for power over to his place for dinner. Nice guy. But instead of bringing desert, the waiters would pull out guns and slaughter the guests--definitely a violation of li. But here, in the mid 1920s, Zhang makes up for such conduct by donning the garb of a Confucian scholar and paying his respects to the memory of "the Sage" at the local Confucian temple. (Incidentally, a few years later, Japanese agents assassinated Zhang as part of an ill-conceived attempt to take over Manchuria.)

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