| deepak_bista |
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on 10-Oct-03 11:06 PM
While family and tradition are detrmining factors in Chinese business, so are the principles of strategic thinking, or bingfa. The Chinese word bing, can be translated as soldier, and fa, as skill or law. Chin-ning Chu suggests that while this can be translated as a term to mean military strategy or art of war, bingfa is better understood as strategic thinking. Chinese military strategy was mostly developed during the Warring States period in China between 500-220 BC, and many bingfa or military strategies, were written during this time. The most complete treatise is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, written about 400 BC-about 100 years after Confucius. The use of bingfa and particularly, Sun Tzu's Art of War, remains quite pervasive, influencing buisness planning and strategy in China, Japan, South Korea and reaching across the Asian region with the spread of the Overseas Chinese.
Chu points out that all the Chinese bingfa texts agree on the foundational principle that successful warfare is dependent upon deception (like mine). She says that Western romance with fair play and openess makes them vulnerable to Asian strategies of deception. Business like war, is a game of deception-according to the principles of bingfa. The issues of strategic planning are taken up again even Chinese mandarin cuisine (We Nepalese have no original cuisine). We have to revolutionise our cuisine for the growth of Gastronomie Tourism.
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