{"product_id":"b0ghlpycgr","title":"Zhuge Liang: The Mind That Endured","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an age of collapse, one man carried a kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZhuge Liang is remembered as one of history’s great strategists—but the real story is harder, and far more compelling than legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe did not inherit a powerful empire.\u003cbr\u003e\nHe entered public life as the Han dynasty collapsed and stronger rivals seized control of China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat followed was not triumph—but discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Longzhong Plan to the survival of Red Cliffs, from the construction of Shu to the burden of regency, Zhuge Liang became the mind behind one of the most serious political efforts of the Three Kingdoms period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe governed under constraint.\u003cbr\u003e\nHe planned under pressure.\u003cbr\u003e\nHe carried a weaker state into repeated conflict against a stronger world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book strips away myth to reveal the reality:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA strategist shaped by limitation, not advantage A statesman who built structure from weakness A regent who held a kingdom together when collapse was near A leader who understood both power—and its limits This is not a romantic retelling.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is a disciplined historical biography of strategy, statecraft, and endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe did not conquer history.\u003cbr\u003e\nHe carried it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924908802293,"sku":"YSL54550","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/8118PboOjmL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673895","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0ghlpycgr","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}