Chinese strategy explained : know yourself and the ennemy, use deception, spies, and "win with ease". Tr. Giles (en, annotated) and Amiot (fr).
Hence the use of spies, of whom there are five classes: 1) Local spies; 2) inward spies; 3) converted spies; 4) doomed spies; 5) surviving spies.
Giles XIII.7.
Le grand secret de venir à bout de tout consiste dans l'art de savoir mettre la division à propos ; division dans les villes et les villages, division extérieure, division entre les inférieurs et les supérieurs, division de mort, division de vie.
Amiot
The Art of War – Sun Zi XIII. 5. – Chinese on/off – Français/English
Alias Sun Tzu, Sun Wu, Sun Tse, Sunzi Bingfa, Souen Tseu, Souen Wou, 孫武.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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