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3 unusual facts about School of Diplomacy


School of Diplomacy

Both Su Qin of the Vertical Alliance clique and Zhang Yi of the Horizontal Alliance clique issue many plans and schemes that are politically subjective.

The 'Annals of the Warring States Period' is a well-written rhetorical compendium the words and actions of the strategists of the School of Diplomacy who were all resourceful, intelligent, aware of the actual situation and gifted in the use of language.

The few principal written records of the School of Diplomacy that exist today are the thirteenth chapter of the 'Book of Gui' or 'Gui Gu-zi', the thirty-third chapter of 'Annals of the Warring States Period' (not about the School of Diplomacy’s followers but primarily the words and actions of its advisors as well as actual combat case studies), the thirty-first chapter of 'Su Zi' and the tenth chapter of 'Zhang Zi'.


Hundred Schools of Thought

The School of Diplomacy or School of Vertical and Horizontal Alliances (縱橫家/纵横家; Zonghengjia) specialized in diplomatic politics; Zhang Yi and Su Qin were representative thinkers.


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