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The Book of Long and Short Strategies
Zhao Rui's Book of Long and Short Strategies is a Tang handbook of statecraft: how to judge people, employ talent, read faces, win wars and rule a state, drawing on history for every lesson. Its title refers to the long and short arguments of the persuaders of the Warring States, and it was a favourite of rulers and ministers for a thousand years. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. Read alongside Sunzi, it shows how Chinese thinkers joined war to government, morale, law and the economy of a state. The Chinese military classics were studied by generals and statesmen for two thousand years and are still read for their insight into strategy, leadership and organisation.
