The War States - Classics of Chinese National Essence Library

Author: Liu Xiang
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The Strategies of the Warring States is a collection of speeches by strategists who persuaded feudal lords during the Warring States period, recorded by historians of each state. The entire book documents the political proposals and strategies proposed by advisors during debates, as well as the conspiracies and machinations among them. It reflects, to some extent, the intense and complex conflicts between feudal states and internal classes/strata from the division of the three families to the Chu-Han contention over more than two hundred years. It also reveals the struggles for power, mutual rivalry, and corruption within ruling groups, as well as the suffering and disasters brought to the people by wars of annexation. All of these provide rich material for the study of Warring States history.