Since ancient times, China has had a sophisticated strategy of communication and confrontation, which enabled those who mastered it to successfully manipulate people around them - partners, subordinates, bosses. This cunning science was kept secret and little known even in China itself. Now the Russian reader can familiarize himself with it in newly corrected translations by one of the leading Russian sinologists. V.V. Malyavin presents here three classic works from the field of Chinese strategy: the ancient treatise “Gui Gu-tzu”, the famous collection “Thirty-six Stratagems” and the treatise of Jhe Xuan “One Hundred Chapters of the Military Canon”. These works are an indispensable aid in practical activities not only civil servants, military and business people, but also everyone who appreciates the practical value of Eastern wisdom and wants to know reliable ways to achieve success in life.