Thirty-Six Stratagems


The Thirty-Six Stratagems (traditional Chinese: 三十六計; simplified Chinese: 三十六计pinyin: Sānshíliù Jì) was originally a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, as well as in civil interaction, often through unorthodox or deceptive means.


Stratagem categories

Senger divides stratagems into six categories:
  1. Simulation or Masking: 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 24, 25,
  2. Dissimulation or Feint: 7, 27, 29, 32, 34
  3. Information or Disclosure: 13, 26,
  4. Exploiting, taking Advantage: 2, 4, 5, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 28, 30, 31, 33
  5. Linking more than one stratagem: 35
  6. Flight Stratagems: 9, 11, 21, 36
Cungen GE, a Chinese researcher of 36 Stratagems from the perspective of modern business competition, supports the ready-made six groups of classification of these stratagems in the book of Thirty-six Stratagems (The Secret of War):
  1. The Stratagems of Winning;
  2. The Stratagems of Defending;
  3. The Stratagems of Attacking;
  4. The Stratagems of Scuffling;
  5. The Stratagems of Merging;
  6. The Stratagems of Losing.

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