C. Ioutsen

For the first time in the English language a comprehensive collection of the classical Chinese military maxims, sourced from the wide selection of relevant texts, both well-known and obscure, on a basis of practical modern-day usage, is presented in a straightforward and logically consistent form. The jewels of tactical and strategic thought, tested by some three thousand years of experience and still inexhaustible, are now available to be consulted in private life, business or indeed anywhere.

A collection of allegories and allusions drawn from distant corners of the history of thought, from Plato and Lao Tzu to the present day. Set in a world of fantasy tropes, it explores the limits of reality and dream, bridging fiction, philosophy and farce, merging poetry with prose and image with text.