Read the Six Great Classics on Officials - Analyzing Ancient Political Wisdom and Power Strategy

Author: Shi Zhongwen
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: The six great classics—Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, Golden Lotus, The Scholars, and Dream of the Red Chamber—serve as a giant mirror, reflecting both the wisdom, talent, strategy, courage, integrity, and boundless passion of ancient Chinese bureaucratic culture, as well as the greed, ugliness, conspiracies, cruelty, inhumanity, and cunning exploitation. They also reveal the suffering, melancholy, sorrow, worries, indignation, boiling anger, and heart-wrenching grief. The six great classics are like an X-ray of history, exposing the souls of the past and the hearts of the present. Desire for anger has never been anger; desire for venom has never been venom. In this world, there are only you and me. When reading the six great classics, one should adopt this perspective. The six great classics are like an X-ray of history, exposing the souls of the past and the hearts of the present. This book uses the six great classics as a mirror to analyze ancient political wisdom and power strategies.