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The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang

Tzu, SunYang, ShangWilkinson, Robert(Introduction by)Duyvendak, J.J.L.(Translated by)Shibing, Yuan(Translated by)Griffith, Tom(Series edited by)
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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.

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
1853267791 / 9781853267796
Paperback / softback
05/02/1998
United Kingdom
English
256 pages
129 x 198 mm, 163 grams
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