About the author

Pian Yuqian is an author about whom limited public information is available. Five of his works are known so far, spanning categories such as military studies, Eastern philosophy, and examinations, including Sun Bin's Art of War, the illustrated edition of the Seven Military Classics, Zhenguan Zhengyao, the Thirty-Six Stratagems in the Chinese Classics Palm Library series, and An Outline of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts. His subjects center mainly on ancient Chinese military treatises, political thought, and works on strategy, with attention as well to excavated materials such as bamboo and silk manuscripts, showing a sustained interest in texts from the pre-Qin through the Tang period. His approach balances original texts with accessible presentation, and the illustrated and pocket-sized formats make traditional military and philosophical writings approachable for general readers. These works help readers understand ancient military learning, statecraft, and strategic culture, serving as a bridge in the modern transmission of these classics.

Written (6)

An Outline of Bamboo Slip and Silk Manuscript Documents cover
Rating 3.9
An Outline of Bamboo Slip and Silk Manuscript Documents 骈宇骞 Peking University Press · 2025 Grounded in a method that combines nearly a century of excavated artifacts with transmitted textual records, this book surveys fundamental questions c…
Sun Bin's Art of War cover
Rating 4.4
Sun Bin's Art of War 骈宇骞 The Commercial Press · 2024 Sun Bin's Art of War, also known as Qi Sunzi, is referred to in the Records of the Grand Historian as "a work handed down through the generations" and…
Zhenguan Zhengyao (Essentials of Government of the Zhenguan Period) cover
Rating 4.2
Zhenguan Zhengyao (Essentials of Government of the Zhenguan Period) 骈宇骞 Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 Zhenguan Zhengyao (Essentials of Government of the Zhenguan Period) is a political treatise in the form of a history book written by the Tang historia…
The Thirty-Six Stratagems (Chinese Classics Pocket Library) cover
Rating 4.0
The Thirty-Six Stratagems (Chinese Classics Pocket Library) 骈宇骞 Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 The Thirty-Six Stratagems is a book of wisdom distilled from ancient China's outstanding military thought and rich experience of struggle. It condense…
The Seven Military Classics (Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.3
The Seven Military Classics (Illustrated Edition) 骈宇骞 / 李解民 / 盛冬铃 Zhonghua Book Company · 2020 The Zuo Zhuan states, "The great affairs of the state are sacrifice and war." War and military buildup were taken seriously by rulers of every dynasty…
Zhenguan Zhengyao (Revised Edition, Chinese Classics Collection) cover
Zhenguan Zhengyao (Revised Edition, Chinese Classics Collection) Wu Jing / 骈宇骞 Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 Zhenguan Zhengyao is a political history compiled by the Tang dynasty historian Wu Jing, completed around the Tianbao era. In ten volumes and forty ch…

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Zhonghua Book CompanyPeking University PressThe Commercial Press