** The Thirty-Six Stratagems, recently recovered.

This type of warfare, being rooted in Chinese Stratagems outlined in words such as Sun Tzu ’ s The Art of War and The Thirty-Six Stratagems, has become so engrained in Chinese culture that the same applies to military strategy and foreign policy strategy.

The battle is remembered in the second of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, " besiege Wei, save Zhao " meaning to attack a vulnerable spot to relieve pressure at another point.

He advocated authoritarian reforms, irrevocable expansion and an alliance with distant states to attack nearby states ( the twenty-third of the Thirty-Six Stratagems ).

For example, the Thirty-Six Stratagems, and Mastering the Art of War ( not to be confused with Sun Tzu's The Art of War ) are two of Zhuge Liang's works that are generally available.

* Thirty-Six Stratagems, English title of a Chinese book concerning stratagems which have military and civil applications.

The Thirty-Six Stratagems was a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, as well as in civil interaction, often through unorthodox or deceptive means.

The Thirty-Six Stratagems

The Thirty-Six Stratagems have variably been attributed to Sun Tzu from the Spring and Autumn Period of China, or Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms period, but neither are regarded as the true author by historians.

Instead, the prevailing view is that the Thirty-Six Stratagems may have originated in both written and oral history, with many different versions compiled by different authors throughout Chinese history.

The Thirty-Six Stratagems are divided into a preface, six chapters containing six stratagems each, and an afterword that was incomplete with missing text.

* Original text of Thirty-Six Stratagems ( Simplified Chinese ) With comments and explanations to the preface, six chapters, and afterword

* English and French translation of the Thirty-Six Stratagems

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The strategy employed by Han Xin, known as Mingxiu Zhandao, Andu Chencang ( 明修棧道, 暗度陳倉 ; literally: " Appearing to repair the gallery roads while making secret advances through Chencang "), became one of the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

* Selected poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb-Biography & 15 poems ( Aquarius, as I was walking down the street, A Catful of Buttermilk, Death's Head, A Discourse, A Double Vision, First Person Demonstrative, Hospitality, Latitude, Ordinary, Moving, Red Black White, Seventh Seal, So Long It's Been, Thirty-Six Ways of Looking at Toronto Ontario, What I Know ( Making Free with Villon's Smalltalk ))

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance.

The storyline editor was created by Phil Parent, using Georges Polti's book The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations as an inspiration.

" Mr. Weinstein's work on that project led to the more abstract " The Thirty-Six Unknown " ( cf.

There is a detailed account of the ceremony on board HMS Blossom in 1825 by Petty Officer John Bechervaise in his private publication Thirty-Six Years of a Sea Faring Life ( 1839 ), available from Kessinger in facsimile.

Harriet Vaughan Cheney used it in her 1824 novel A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Thirty-Six, and the term also gained popularity with the 1825 publication of Felicia Hemans ' classic poem, " The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.

Hokusai created the " Thirty-Six Views " both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji.

Masterworks of Ukiyo-E: Hokusai – The Thirty-Six Views of Mt.

* The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, which is Georges Polti's categorization of every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance.

* " Six Times Six Is Thirty-Six " w. Bert Hanlon m. William White

His last years were among his most productive, with his great series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon ( 1885 – 1892 ), and New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts ( 1889 – 1892 ), as well as some masterful triptychs of kabuki theatre actors and scenes.

Two of his three best-known series, the One Hundred Aspects of the Moon and Thirty-Six Ghosts, contain numerous masterpieces.

From a copy of the Sanjurokunin Kashu or Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | " Thirty-Six Immortal Poets " kept in the Hongan-ji | Hongan-ji Temple, Kyoto.

This battle gives rise to a well-known proverb, " Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao " ( 圍魏救趙 ), which is also included as one of the Thirty-Six Strategies.

This battle is only mentioned in Stratagems in War by Polyaenus.

The translation was reissued with a new title, Darkness Discovered ; or the Devil's secret Stratagems laid open ( 1651 ).

Polyaenus or Polyenus (; see ae ( æ ) vs. e ;, " many proverbs ") was a 2nd century Macedonian author, known best for his Stratagems in War ( in Greek, Στρατηγήματα ), which has been preserved.

He dedicated Stratagems in War to Marcus Aurelius ( 161 – 180 ) and Verus ( 161 – 169 ), while they were engaged in the Parthian war ( 162 – 165 ), about 163 CE, at which time he was too old to accompany them in their campaigns.

* Stratagems of the Warring States, English title of a Chinese book compiled between the 3rd to 1st centuries BCE.

* Greatness in Simplicity: The 36 Stratagems and Chinese Enterprises, Strategic Thinking by Cungen GE, ISBN 7-80207-642-0

* English introduction to the Stratagems with translation of each accompanied by examples taken from Chinese and Japanese history

His extant work on military matters, the Stratagems ( Latin: Strategemata ), is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, for the use of generals.

Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem, Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.

In his Stratagems, the 2nd-century Macedonian rhetorician Polyaenus describes a battle between the Spartans and Demetrius of Macedon in 294 BC.

* The latest edition of the Stratagems is by R. I. Ireland ( Teubner, 1990 ISBN 3-322-00746-4 ) ; English translation in Loeb Classical Library, 1925.

The 2nd century AD Macedonian author Polyaenus in his Stratagems in War also records Gorgidas as the founder of the Sacred Band.

* Julius Frontinus Stratagems, II 1. 14, 2. 4 ( Tigranocerta ), II 5. 30 ( Pontic assassination attempt 72 BC ), II 7. 8 ( Macedonian cavalry during Cabira campaign ), III 13. 6 ( swimming messenger at siege of Cyzicus )

* Stratagems ( Latin: Strategemata ), by the 1st-century Roman author Frontinus, which concerns military stratagems drawn from Greek and Roman history.

* Stratagems ( Greek: Στρατηγηματα ), book by the 2nd-century Macedonian author Polyaenus which concerns military strategems.

* L174 ) Stratagems.