The Book Of Stratagems

With worldwide focus on the strategies used to win the Gulf War, here is a guide to ancient Oriental stratagems and their relevance today. Swiss sinologist Harro von Senger has brought together an invaluable guidebook for the West, illustrating the traditional strategic rules and survival schemes used by the Chinese for thousands of years.

The author reveals the traditional strategic rules and survival schemes used by the Chinese to triumph over their enemies, demonstrating how stratagems have long been a mainstay of Chinese businessmen, politicians, lawmakers, intellectuals, generals, and footsoldiers alike.

Compiled 300 years ago, this is one of the most outstanding examples of Chinese military writing. Emphasizing deceptive schemes to achieve military objectives, it will be of interest to scholars, business strategists & casual readers. Includes original Classical Chinese text.

F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in “exotic” and “developed” societies. In Bailey's analysis, Swat Pathan chiefs, cosa nostra gangsters, General de Gaulle, and the Untouchables in a rural Indian village (for example) are shown employing similar strategies, both effective and ineffective, to win and hold followers while eroding the support of their opponents. Provocative and insightful, Stratagems and Spoils provides a conceptual toolkit for analyzing, in any culture, the rules that regulate political contests and determine who will win and who will lose.

Out of print and out of the hands of military professionals for years, this classic work is available once again. It offers professionals a model for studying and analyzing deception operations. Thoroughly referenced and supported with clear data tables, the case studies concentrate on goals, planning, intelligence assessments, and more.

This unique edition of Thirty-Six Stratagems features both English, Chinese and Pinyin side-by-side for easy reference and bilingual support. The strategies are organized for easy reading. This text is celebrated as one of China's classic military strategy texts.The Thirty-Six Stratagems was a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, as well as in civil interaction. Readers of "The Art of War" will enjoy these ancient Chinese strategies and theories. Each proverb is accompanied by a brief explanation that explains how said proverb is applicable to military tactics. These 36 Chinese proverbs are related to 36 battle scenarios in Chinese history and folklore, predominantly of the Warring States period and the Three Kingdoms Period.

Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils is a sequel to the author's highly regarded Stratagems and Spoils.Treason, the new word in the title, indicates a heightened attention to morality?to ideas of duty and conscience?as a foil to rational calculations of advantage. By providing sets of propositions and questions that illuminate narratives of political events, this book helps anyone interested in struggles for power understand politics and political leaders in their own and in other cultures. The method can be used to make sense of power struggles in peasant villages, electoral and presidential maneuvering in the United States, the confusions of post-Soviet Eastern Europe, or Gandhi's morality deployed as a weapon to drive the British out of India.