The Chinese Machiavelli: 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft

ISBN-13: 9780765805683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 372 str.

Dennis Bloodworth; Ching Bloodworth

Opis

Machiavelli drew on 2000 years of history to develop theories on how to make war, how to win battles, and how to gain power and keep it. Using Machiavelli as a springboard, Dennis and Ching Ping Bloodworth boldly and adroitly map out 3000 years of Chinese political-military history-from Confucius to Mao Zedong-using Machiavelli's discourse of power politics. They reveal a pageantry of Chinese historical figures, from wise strategists, heroic generals, crafty statesmen, and ruthless emperors to brave knights-errant, and from stately Confucian philosophers to shrewd, cunning Legalist thinkers, without the usual Confucian restraint.

Spis treści

One: Thinking; 1: Curtain Raiser; 2: Tall Man from Lu; 3: Little Jesus, Big Marx; 4: The Straw Dogs; 5: Government by Goodness; 6: The Day of the Kissingers; 7: The Mixmasters; 8: Machiavellissimo; Two: Fighting; 9: The Gentle Art of War; 10: The Downhill Struggle; 11: The Knight and the Nobody; 12: Armies for Two; 13: Empire for One; 14: Prologue to Chaos; 15: Talk of Ts’ao Ts’ao; 16: The Keys of the Kingdoms; 17: Chinese Cutthroat; 18: Third-Party Risk; 19: The Drama in Modern Dress; Three: Ruling; 20: The Case for Murder; 21: The Golden Rule of the Assassin; 22: The Soft Touch; 23: Absolute Scholarship Corrupts Absolutely; 24: The Hero Worshippers; 25: The Living Dead; 26: The Tongue and the Teeth; 27: All Chinese Are Brothers; 28: Barbarians in Perspective; 29: Democrazy; Four: Analyzing; 30: Past for Consumption; 31: Western Approaches; 32: From the Top

O autorze

Dennis Bloodworth