The article is devoted to the study of the Chinese military discourse — its peculiarities and their adequate reproduction by means of the Ukrainian language. The communicatively standardized specificity of the Chinese military discourse is represented in the article: some approaches to the study of military discourse as well as linguocultural means enabling the interpretation of the Chinese original (the military treatise “The Art of War” written by Sun Tzu) are analysed; the selection of linguistic means facilitating adequate reproduction of the Chinese military discourse in the Ukrainian language are substantiated.