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The Master of Ghost Valley
The Master of Ghost Valley was said to have taught the two great diplomats of the Warring States, Su Qin and Zhang Yi, who made and broke alliances between the kingdoms. His book is a manual of persuasion: how to open and close, how to probe a man's feelings, how to fit your words to his desires, how to flatter, frighten and win, and how to keep your own intentions hidden. It is the most practical and the most unsettling of the early Chinese philosophical texts, often compared with Machiavelli, and it has been read for two thousand years by strategists, officials and salesmen. This complete new English translation gives all the chapters of the received text, including the Middle Classic.
