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The science of war : Sun Tzu's Art of war re-translated and re-considered /

For more than two thousand years strategists in China have followed a single, coherent system of military principles and teachings. This book tells how those principles and teachings first crystallized into the treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, how they were honed by generals and rulers in the centuri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macdonald, Christopher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, [2018]
Subjects:
Military art and science > China > Early works to 1800.
Strategy > Early works to 1800.
Leadership > Early works to 1800.
Table of Contents:
  • Sun Tzu the man and Sun-tzu the text
  • Art of war or science of war?
  • Can a commander win the Sun Tzu way?
  • Sun Tzu and the PRC
  • Translator's note
  • Selected quotations
  • The Sun-tzu in translation
  • The Sun-tzu in Chinese.