One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies
Subtitle: Battle and Tactics of Chinese Warfare
Contributors: Ralph D. Sawyer (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: June 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780813328614
Subjects: Business & Management; History; Mind, body, spirit: disciplines & techniques; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Warfare & Defence; Military - Strategy; General; Case studies; History - Military / War; History: World; History, Military; Asia - China; History / Military / Strategy; History-Asia - China; Tactics; China; Early works to 1800
First sentence: The history of China, ever portrayed in terms of its glorious culture and storied continuity, differs remarkably from general perceptions and common knowledge, being instead an interminable struggle between the forces of light and dark, culture and brutality, the civil and the martial.