Military Instruction, Part One
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in ancient Chinese military thought who wish to read the primary texts directly
- University students studying pre-Qin military texts or preparing coursework on them
- Management readers concerned with organized training, discipline, and reward and punishment mechanisms
- Traditional culture enthusiasts who need short classical Chinese materials for close-reading practice
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a modern training manual or practical case studies
- Beginners with weak classical Chinese reading ability who are unwilling to consult annotations
- Ordinary readers who only want story-driven war narratives
Reading tips
- First read through once to grasp the general meaning, then go sentence by sentence with the annotations to sort out the training steps and the reward and punishment provisions.
- Read this chapter alongside "The Lower Chapter on Military Training" and compare how the two chapters divide and connect their training methods.
- After reading, summarize in one paragraph the relationship between the "purpose of training" and the "institutional means," to test your understanding.
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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- 兵教上第二十一
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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.
