Ten Faults
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Beginning readers interested in the Six Secret Teachings and pre-Qin military thought
- Managers involved in team management and personnel decisions who wish to learn from the past
- Lovers of traditional history and literature who enjoy short original texts and are willing to chew over them sentence by sentence
- Workplace readers who need a checklist of personality failings for self-reflection
Not a good fit for
- Specialist researchers expecting systematic annotation and lengthy doctrinal exposition
- Readers who want only vernacular stories and lack patience for brief original texts
- Military enthusiasts seeking concrete operational details of military tactics
Reading tips
- First read through the relevant passage of the "Dragon韬" chapter of the Six Secret Teachings, then take notes on each of the "ten faults" one by one.
- With each fault, connect it to a specific person or team role around you and write down the corresponding observation.
- Use the ten faults as a self-check list, pick the two or three closest to yourself, and think about how to remedy them.
- Read it alongside the chapter on commanders in The Art of War and compare the two works' different emphases on the qualities of a commander.
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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- 十过第十
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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.
