Military Orders, Part One
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in pre-Qin military texts and ancient military thought
- Students studying the history of ancient Chinese military affairs and intellectual history
- Enthusiasts who hope to begin with short texts to understand Wei Liaozi
- Researchers who need military documentary material for comparative reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting modern war cases and practical combat analysis
- People who read only vernacular stories and are unwilling to engage with classical Chinese original text
- Readers who hope to read the entire military text systematically and need a complete annotation system
Reading tips
- First read through the original text to grasp the general meaning, then scrutinize sentence by sentence the meaning of key sentences such as "taking military force as the stem and civil governance as the seed".
- Read it alongside chapters in The Art of War that discuss the legitimacy of war and military discipline, comparing similarities and differences.
- Extract the sections on deployment and discipline, and understand their operational character in light of common knowledge about the pre-Qin military system.
- The text is short and can be read in two or three sessions; after each reading, summarize the main points in your own words.
About the publisher
Bashu Publishing House is a publisher centered on collating and publishing classical Chinese cultural texts, with its main publishing areas covering classical literature, Eastern philosophy, ancient poetry, and educational classics. Its library currently holds 1,075 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber, the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, Renjian Cihua, and Out to the Frontier, involving authors such as Cao Xueqin, Wang Xizhi, Wang Guowei, Wang Changling, Liu Xie, and Yan Yu. These reflect the publisher's focus on literary classics, poetry criticism, and philosophical readings. Its publishing character lies in working around ancient texts and canonical works, with attention to textual collation and presentation. Public information on its more detailed publishing background and series plans is limited; this introduction is based only on the library's book information.
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Anonymous is not a real personal name but a general Chinese designation for authors whose names are unknown, lost, or unsigned. Neither nationality nor dates of birth and death can be verified, and available public information is limited, so the works attributed to this name are the only basis for description. The collection holds 2,078 works under Anonymous, spanning medicine, classics, historical readings, ancient poetry, classical literature, and philosophy. Representative works include The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Lingshu, Mencius, The Book of Documents, Nineteen Old Poems, Complete Song Ci, and The Peacock Flies Southeast. Most of these works took shape through long transmission and editing, emerging either from collective folk creation or from authors whose names were lost over time. In ancient China, the Book of Songs, the Great Learning, and many popular storybooks and plays were signed Anonymous because their authors could not be traced. Anonymous works cross the classics, histories, philosophical writings, medical texts, and poetry; their subjects are broad, and their styles vary from archaic simplicity to clear naturalness, making them important and influential sources for understanding ancient Chinese thought, medicine, and literature.
