We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
61. Virtuosity at Using 'Beneath' Those which are great states flow downward. The interchanges in the social world! The female of the social world! The female constants using stillness. She conquer the male using stillness to act out 'beneath'. Hence if great states use 'beneath' on small states, then they take small states. If small states use 'beneath' on great states, then they take great states. Hence some 'beneath' in order to take, some 'beneath' and then take. Great states simply desire universally domesticating people. Small states simply desire serving people. So of the two, each gets what it wants. The great fittingly deems 'beneath'. -- tr. C. Hansen