Editing Paper tiger (section)

==Origin==
''Zhilaohu'' is an ancient phrase. [[Robert Morrison (missionary)|Robert Morrison]], the British missionary and lexicographer, translated the phrase as "a paper tiger" in ''Vocabulary of the [[Cantonese|Canton Dialect]]'' in 1828.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Zimmer|first=Ben|author-link=Ben Zimmer|date=2017-02-23|title=The Chinese Origins of 'Paper Tiger'|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chinese-origins-of-paper-tiger-1487873046|access-date=2021-05-21}}</ref><ref name="Morrison1828">{{cite book|last=Morrison|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Morrison (missionary)|year=1828|title=Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=udJUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP536 |volume=I|location=Macao|publisher=East India Company's Press|page=536}}</ref> [[John Francis Davis]] translated the Chinese phrase as "paper tiger" in a book on Chinese history published in 1836.<ref>{{cite book|first=John Francis|last=Davis|author-link=John Francis Davis|year=1836|title=The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its Inhabitants
|volume=II|location=London|publisher=Charles Knight & Co.|page=163|oclc=5720352|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8JJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA163
|quote=Some of the ordinary expressions of the Chinese are pointed and sarcastic enough. A blustering, harmless fellow they call 'a paper tiger.'}}</ref> In a meeting with [[Henry Kissinger]] in 1973, Mao Zedong claimed in a humorous aside to have coined the English phrase.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB90/dubious-10c.pdf|title=Memorandum of Conversation, Beijing, February 17–18, 1973, 11:30 p.m.–1:20 a.m.|website=[[National Security Archive]]|access-date=15 December 2016}}</ref>