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The Protracted Game
Keywords: Culture & History
The Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy by Scott A. Boorman, Oxford University Press 1969 This book tries to use go strategies to explain those used by Mao Tse-tung. From pp 5-6: It is safe to assume that, historically, there has probably been considerable interaction between the strategy of wei-ch'i and the strategy used in Chinese warfare. If indeed wei-ch'i and Chinese Communist Strategy are products of the same strategic tradition, wei-ch'i may be more realistically used as an analogic model of that strategy than any purely theoretical structure generated by a Western social scientist. ... A more direct and positive factor contributing to the potential value of wei-ch'i as a strategic decision model of Chinese Communist insurgent strategy is to found in the presence of significant comparisons between the strategy of the game and that of the revolution in the writings of Mao Tse-tung. In May 1938, in his important essay Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War against Japan, Mao wrote:
Scott Boorman is now in the Sociology Department of the University of Yale. From the faculty web page: Scott A. Boorman, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 1973), Professor of Sociology and Research Affiliate, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, was a Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1970-73 and Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, 1974-76. He is a mathematical sociologist interested in developing new mathematical phenomenology for complex social structures and processes, as well as a graduate of the Yale Law School and a member of the Bars of New York and Massachusetts. His research in recent years has been in models for evolutionary biosociology, blockmodel algorithms for the empirical description of social networks, and the theory of complex statutory evolution, and analysis of social processes that involve alternatives to rational choice. His publications include:
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