The symbiosis of wisdom and cunning. The classic work is now available in a complete paperback edition for the first time.

Strategem means (according to Duden) war trick, artifice, ruse. In China, the ability to see through and apply cunning is highly regarded. The Chinese have been using strategems for thousands of years and have refined them over time. They enable clever planning and skillful responses in both everyday and extraordinary situations, in professional and private life.

In the "36 Strategems," Western readers will not only gain access to a little-known art of planning from the Chinese, but they can also learn a great deal about themselves through their approach to cunning.

"Europeans would do well to use this cunning-sensitive wisdom to correct their own notions of wisdom and thus their blindness to cunning." Harro von Senger.