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    The Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China
    Historical Thread 1 Featured July 14 , 2004
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    A collection of ancient Chinese proverbs that describe some of the most cunning and subtle strategies ever devised. These proverbs describe not only battlefield strategies, but tactics used in psychological warfare to undermine both the enemy's will to fight and his sanity.

    Strategy 1 - Deceive the sky to cross the ocean.
    Strategy 2 - Surround Wei to rescue Zhao.
    Strategy 3 - Borrow another's hand to kill.
    Strategy 4 - Make your enemy work while you wait at leisure.
    Strategy 5 - Use the opportunity of fire to rob others.
    Strategy 6 - Display in the east and attack in the west.
    Strategy 7 - Create something from nothing.
    Strategy 8 - Secretly utilize the Chen Chang passage.
    Strategy 9 - Watch the fires burning across the river.
    Strategy 10 - Knife hidden under the smiling face.
    Strategy 11 - Plum tree sacrifices for the peach tree.
    Strategy 12 - Walk the sheep home, just because it is there.
    Strategy 13 - Disturb the snake by hitting the grass.
    Strategy 14 - Borrow another's body to return the soul.
    Strategy 15 - Entice the tiger to leave the mountain.
    Strategy 16 - In order to capture, one must let loose.
    Strategy 17 - Bait a piece of jade with a brick.
    Strategy 18 - Defeat the enemy by capturing their chief.
    Strategy 19 - Remove the firewood under the cooking pot.
    Strategy 20 - Fish in troubled waters.
    Strategy 21 - Slough off the cicada's shell.
    Strategy 22 - Shut the door to catch the thief.
    Strategy 23 - Befriend a distant state while attacking a neighbor.
    Strategy 24 - Obtain safe passage to conquer the Kingdom of Guo.
    Strategy 25 - Replace the beams and pillars with rotten timber.
    Strategy 26 - Point at the mulberry and curse the locust.
    Strategy 27 - Pretend to be a pig in order to eat the tiger.
    Strategy 28 - Cross the river and destroy the bridge.
    Strategy 29 - Deck the tree with bogus blossoms.
    Strategy 30 - Make the host and the quest exchange places.
    Strategy 31 - The beauty trap.
    Strategy 32 - Empty city.
    Strategy 33 - Let the enemy's own spy sow discord in the enemy camp.
    Strategy 34 - Inflict injury on one's self to win the enemy's trust.
    Strategy 35 - Chain together the enemy's ships.
    Strategy 36 - Run away to fight another day.


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