Mountain Warfare
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Beginning readers interested in ancient military texts and military thought
- Students who need to study a single text of ancient Chinese military literature
- General readers who enjoy short classical Chinese texts and are willing to read closely sentence by sentence
- Teachers engaged in popularizing traditional culture or teaching the art of war
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a long war story or historical romance
- Readers hoping for guidance on modern practical tactics
- Readers who prefer plain vernacular works and do not wish to engage with classical Chinese
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the general idea, then work through the text sentence by sentence with the annotations, clarifying terrain and troop-movement terms.
- Read it alongside other chapters of Hundred Stratagems to compare principles of warfare under different terrain conditions.
- Sketch mountain diagrams as you read to help understand spatial relationships such as ambushes and supply lines.
- Do not feel obliged to finish it in one sitting; read a short passage closely each time and take brief notes.
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.
