The new book by the well-known China expert, writer, artist, and translator Bronislav Vinogrodsky is devoted to one of the basic tools for managing the world—controlling meanings. Each listener has and constantly uses the necessary instruments for this—parts of their personality, their consciousness, their creative energy. But to use them correctly, you need to start with them—or rather, to begin playing your GAME with the world. This practice of controlling is what the book is about. It is a synthesis of a mosaic of ancient Eastern philosophy and modern psychology. The main themes of this book are: why the world will play by your rules and according to your game—and how to win in the game you created and imposed on the world. For the first time in significant volume, translations from the works of the Chinese thinker Wei Dehan are published. He lived and worked in the first half of the 3rd century AD, during the era of the Three Kingdoms. He was a wandering Daoist who traveled from one ruler to another, sometimes performing the work of an adviser and court fortuneteller. Wei Dehan’s quotes resonate with the worldview that Bronislav Vinogrodsky presents in “The Art of Playing with the World.”