Harro von Sanger-Stratagems. On the Chinese art of living and surviving (3 volumes in a wooden case). Leather binding

For the first time, a modern reading of all 36 famous stratagems, the true embodiment of three thousand years of wisdom.

"The very concept of' stratagem '(in Chinese: zhimou, moulue, tselue, fanlue) means a strategic plan that contains some kind of trap or trick for the enemy. "Zhimou", for example, simultaneously means intelligence, ingenuity, and resourcefulness. Strategymost originated in ancient times and was connected with the methods of the military and diplomatic struggle. The stratagem was not only the generals. The political teachers and mentors of the tsars were skilled both in managing civil society and in diplomacy. Everything that required winning a political battle needed, in their opinion, stratagem equipment. Diplomatic stratagems were plans aimed at solving a major foreign policy problem, designed for a long period and meeting national and state interests. Stratagem diplomacy drew its means and methods not from the principles, norms and customs of international law, but from the theory of the art of war, which is total in nature and asserts that the end justifies the means."