re: By the way, the "Assassin's Mace" is actually the "Killer's Mace"
One of the points a person could take away from Oberg's article is Chinese is easy to misinterpret. So I wouldn't bet Ed's interpretation being right and any the term in a language as complicated as Chinese is subject to multiply interpretations.
Anyway here is a link to something on Eddy's criptic nonsense:
http://web.elastic.org/~fche/mirrors/cryptome.org/cuw.htm
