The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts

The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts: The Classic Chinese Guide for Success in War Business and Life. By: Hiroshi Moriya.

The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts is a collection of ancient Chinese maxims that encapsulate some of the Far East’s most cunning tactics for battle and deception – and as such offer invaluable insights into facets of the Oriental mind. Each of these strategies represents a distilled nugget of Chinese wisdom. Hiroshi Moriya an acknowledged authority of Chinese culture and philosophy published a book in Japanese in which he analysed and explained these strategies. He then used examples from ancient and recent history to further elucidate their meaning. Now renowned translator William Scott Wilson makes The 36 Secret Strategies accessible to today’s reader with his new English translation of both the Chinese maxim itself and Moriya’s interpretive work.

The volume is organised into 6 parts with six chapters in each. Some of the ideas presented will be familiar others will be new and counterintuitive. While these strategies offer a look into the past they are even more valuable to today’s reader for providing insights into contemporary China. And like such other classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Art of War The 36 Secret Strategies gives the businessman the diplomat the politician the military strategist the martial artist and the sports competitor keys to understanding interpreting and countering the action of even the most daunting opponent.

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