The Art of War by Tzu Sun

The Art of War by Tzu Sun

Capturing the literary quality of "The Art of War", this book presents the core text in two different formats. It allows readers to form their own first impressions of the ancient words of wisdom ascribed to Sun-tzu. It includes an introduction, chronologies, suggested readings, and other apparatus.

"The strategic advice that [The Art of War] offers concerns much more than the conduct of warIt is an ancient book of proverbial wisdom, a book of life." —John Minford, from the Introduction

Little is known about Sun Tzu (544-496 B.C.) and his life during the Warring States period after the decline of the Zhou dysnasty, but his classic, The Art of War, has been one of the central works of Chinese literature for 2500 years.

John Minford (editor/translator) studied Chinese at Oxford and at the Australian National University and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. He edited (with Geremie Barme) Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience and (with Joseph S. M. Lau) Chinese Classical Literature: An Anthology of Translations. He has translated numerous works from the Chinese, including the last two volumes of the Penguin Classics edition of Cao Xueqin's eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone and the martial-arts fiction of the contemporary Hong Kong novelist Louis Cha.

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ISBN 13	9780143105756
ISBN 10	0143105752
Title	The Art of War
Author	Tzu Sun
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2009-09-03
Number of pages	384
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