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b"Written into the ancient histories were the big-name Warring States characters Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin, and Pang Juan. Sima Qian and others remarked that these four men were all students of Guiguzi \\u9b3c\\u8c37\\u5b50.\\xa0He's like a lot of figures from Bronze Age China. Guiguzi's name is mentioned in a few important texts. But that's about it. Just his name and the barest of details.\\xa0Over the centuries, scholars put some flesh on those bones, but the truth remains, there's not much to sink our teeth into as far as Guiguzi the person is concerned.\\xa0But the stories associated with Guiguzi are good ones and worth a re-telling.\\xa0Su Qin and Zhang Yi's Vertical and Horizontal Strategies, and the story of Sun Bin, Pang Juan and Sun Bin's Art of War.\\xa0The Guiguzi is considered China's first work of rhetoric. It's interesting to see how rhetoric developed in Warring States China at the exact same time as Plato and Aristotle in Greece. Somewhere along the way though, The Guiguzi became better known as a military treatise. Thanks everyone for listening.\\xa0\\nHui Wu\\u2019s \\u201cGuiguzi, China\\u2019s First Treatise on Rhetoric, A Critical Translation and Commentary.\\u201d Find it here:\\xa0https://a.co/d/9RV6k8U\\xa0\\n\\u8c0b\\u5723\\u9b3c\\u8c37\\u5b50 For the Holy Guiguzi video:\\xa0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvDuSJ8imKg&list=PLy8WDOJkSFFz92BEhcYXmYdm0tWAZXnLw\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"