Strategy 1: Fool the Emperor to Cross the Sea

Excerpted from the book, The Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China, by Stefan H. Verstappen. Strategy 1 features a Japanese folktale about the Samurai and the Rat. Illustrated with Japanese woodblock prints from the Edo period.

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Education

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• 36 strategies
• strategy
• tactics
• China
• Japan
• folktales
• art of war
• samurai
• cat
• rat

[MrToddlivingstone]

When is this coming out as an audiobook?

[shaolinmountainbike]

@MrToddlivingstone Thanks for your interest. It's on list of things to do, but likely a year away still. Will let you know if and when.

Best,

[THX1146]

All 3 cats are but the path of the wise.Old things move more slowly and conserve energy.Their actions and reactions can be more explosive when needed.Like the old chinese man in the back of the bus who beat up everybody and got off at his transfer stop.

[shaolinmountainbike]

@THX1146 Well said.

[MrToddlivingstone]

@shaolinmountainbike , thank you, I'll be first in line

[Q2IN2Y]

love it... put up more please