How to Win, 36 Ancient Strategies for Success by Eva Wong -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Titles Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Background History Key Figures Part One: Strategies for Winning

1. Deceiving heaven to cross the sea 2. Besiege the state of Wei to rescue Zhao 3. Kill with a borrowed knife 4. Wait at leisure while the opponent labors 5. Loot while fires are burning 6. Make sounds in the east and strike west

Part Two: Strategies for Deceiving the Opponent

7. Create something out of nothing 8. Crossing into Chencang in secret 9. Watch the fires burn from across the shore 10. Hide a knife behind a smile 11. Sacrifice the plum tree to save the peach tree 12. Taking the opportunity to steal a goat

Part Three: Strategies for Attacking

13. Stomp the grass to scare the snake 14. Borrow a corpse to resurrect a life 15. Lure the tiger out of its mountain lair 16. To capture an enemy, you need to allow them to escape 17. Throw away a brick to gain a piece of jade 18. Defeat the enemy by capturing their leader

Part Four: Strategies That Take Advantage of Chaos and Confusion

19. Removing the firewood from under the cauldron 20. Stir the water to catch the fish 21. Golden cicada shedding its shell 22. Shut the door to catch the thief 23. Befriend a distant state and attack an adjacent one 24. Using safe passage to conquer the state of Guo

Part Five: Strategies of Sabotage

Part Six: Strategies for Desperate Conditions

31. Sexual enticement as strategy 32. The empty-fort strategy 33. Counterespionage strategy 34. Using self-inflicted injury as strategy 35. Interconnecting strategies 36. Running may sometimes be the best strategy

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