The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang

The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang

by Sun TzuShang Yang and Tom Griffith
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/12/2012

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Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson.


The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years.


The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured.


The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.

ISBN:
9781848705012
9781848705012
Category:
Warfare & defence
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-12-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu is a honorific title bestowed upon SÅ«n Wu (c. 544-496 BC), the author of The Art of War, an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy.

He is also one of the earliest realists in international relations theory. In the author's name, Sūn Wu, the character wu, meaning "military", is the same as the character in wu shu, or martial art. Sun Wu also has a courtesy name, Chang Qing (Cháng Qīng).

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