Read the Six Great Classical Novels: 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—are like a giant mirror. They reflect the wisdom, talent, strategy, courage, integrity, and boundless passion of ancient Chinese bureaucratic culture, as well as the greed, ugliness, conspiracy, cruelty, inhumanity, and cunning exploitation. They also reveal the suffering, melancholy, sorrow, worries, indignation, anger, and heartbreak. The six great classics are like an X-ray of history, revealing the souls of the past and the hearts of the modern world. Desire for anger, yet never truly angry; desire for poison, yet never truly poisonous. 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, revealing the souls of the past and the hearts of the modern world. This book uses the six great classics as a mirror to analyze ancient political wisdom and power strategies.