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What Chinese literature do you enjoy?
Three Body Problem is a recent popular Chinese sci-fi series with a good translation that I can recommend.
I enjoyed Romance of the Three Kingdoms quite a bit. It was legitimately entertaining! I would recommend an abridged translation.
I've studied some Analects / Dialects / Neoconfucianism in school, Tao Te Ching, and Art of War. Those had some useful ideas in them, but were not exactly a laugh a minute (although Tao Te Ching has some funny bits). Those last two are very short texts as well.
Still on my list: Bandits of the Marsh, Journey to the West, and one other I can't remember the title of right now.
Sun Tzu's Art of War /s
Why sarcasm? It's a good read and it occasionally comes to mind.
I've read it too (a long time ago, in a galaxy far... ehm, you know what I mean). I remember it was pretty good and interesting read. This sarcasm is more like a joke - when OP asks why superpowers can't get along, just recommend book about warfare and getting upper hand on your enemy.
Ahh it flew over my head thanks.
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" is often misattributed to Sun Tzu, but it's still a good joke in context lol.