Inducing Battle
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Ordinary readers interested in ancient military strategy and strategic thought
- Students who need short close-reading material to understand traditional military concepts
- Professionals hoping to draw decision-making inspiration from classical texts
- Readers engaged in popularizing traditional culture or teaching military history
Not a good fit for
- Advanced researchers seeking systematic, fully annotated military texts with detailed case studies
- Practical-minded readers who only want modern business-management cases
- Beginners with little patience for classical Chinese or ancient military terminology
Reading tips
- Read the original text first, then consult the relevant chapters of Hundred Battles and Strange Strategies to understand its place in the whole book.
- While reading, note key terms such as “initiative” and “maneuvering the enemy” and make brief annotations.
- Relate the ideas to a real competitive or negotiation scenario and consider how they might transfer.
- If classical Chinese is a barrier, read a vernacular explanation first, then return to the original to sense its tone.
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.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 致战
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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.
