Sorry. I know the term is very, very broad, but I was wondering if there are any good books about Chinese warfare that depicted common strategies and tactics and the actualities of war. Ancient or medieval period - so anything up to say 15th century works. I know there's a lot to cover, so if there's a book that lays a lot of this out in a broader fashion (i.e. showing evolution, etc.), that would be my preference.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Truth be told, Chinese military history is not the most developed field of study as of yet outside of the Second Sino-Japanese War, although attempts have been made to correct that trend. Two very good overviews are eds. David Graff and Robin Higham's A Military History of China and ed. Nicola di Cosmo's Military Culture in Imperial China, both of which technically go up to relatively recent times (the former to the near-present and the latter to 1840) but most of what they discuss quite naturally falls within your area of interest. The latter is somewhat more focussed on strategic thinking than the former, and you can probably read both without too much overlap. Looking at the later part of your period of interest, Tonio Andrade's The Gunpowder Age includes a very readable overview of medieval and early modern Chinese warfare in a more broadly Eurasian context, with an emphasis on gunpowder weaponry. My own interest really starts in the 17th century and is mainly concentrated in the 19th, so I don't know how much you may be interested in Andrade's Lost Colony on the Sino-Dutch conflict of 1661-2 or Peter Perdue's China Marches West on the Qing-Zunghar wars of the 1680s-1750s, but there is also that.
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David A. Graff's Medieval Chinese Warfare 300-900 is an excellent text for the post-Han interregnum, Six Dynasties, and the Sui and Tang periods.
Graff runs the Chinese Military History Society which has a recommended reading list here:
https://www.cmhsociety.org/index.php/articles/suggested-readings