CHAPTER 7

Learning from the Classics

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

A Book of Constant Influence

Sun Tzu’s Art of War may be the title that most commonly comes to mind when talking about Chinese classic strategy treatises, but there is another book far more relevant to the modern business environment due both to its complexity and to the relativity of its moral approach.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the four classic Chinese literary works (the others are the romantic Dream of the Red Chamber, the swashbuckling The Water Margin, and the adventurous Travel to the West) and was written by Luo Guanzhong between the years 1350 and 1400. ...

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