{"product_id":"the-chinese-machiavelli-3000-years-of-chinese-statecraft-9780765805683","title":"The Chinese Machiavelli 3000 Years of Chinese","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMachiavelli 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne: 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","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018431955287,"sku":"9780765805683","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780765805683.jpg?v=1750776862","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-chinese-machiavelli-3000-years-of-chinese-statecraft-9780765805683","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}