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Strategies For The Human Realm: Crux Of The T'Aipai Yinching,Used
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Composed by Li Chan (Li Quan), a provincial military official who served in the middle Tang dynasty, the Taipai Yinching revitalized the theoretical study of warfare in China. Remarkably comprehensive, it first focuses upon the human realm, devoting a quarter of its hundred chapters to the grand issues of government, warfare, human society, ethical values, and mans orientation within the universe while pondering the more concrete problems of the nature of command, methods for evaluating men, the role of rewards and punishments, and the implementation of subversive measures. Instead of conquering through combat or achieving the fabled hundred victories in a hundred clashes, Lis aim was victory without combat so as to preserve the state rather than debilitate it in warfare. The remaining seventyfive chapters, not translated here, briefly discuss important battle equipment and techniques before unfolding extensive material on sacrifices and arcane prognosticatory methods. Highly regarded thereafter, the Taipai Yinching stands at the beginning of the later military tradition in China and numerous chapters appear in the military compendia produced over the next thousand years. It also continues to be the subject of conscious study as the PRC strives to develop military science with unique Chinese characteristics.
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