Sun Tzu's Original Art of War is a remastering of the Chinese classic: using the latest archeological discoveries and modern translation techniques, this brand new translation -- prominently adorned with the latest reconstruction of the original Chinese -- updates the unnecessary wordiness and stodg[...]
Enjoy two classics of tactical and strategic thinking together in one volume Despite being separated by 2000 years and half a world, these famous works of Niccolo Machiavelli and Sun Tzu have much in common. Both books were produced during times of great unrest and both have altered the course of p[...]
Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a ra[...]
P J Ivanhoe is one of the English-speaking world's foremost translators and interpreters of classical Chinese philosophical texts. His translation of the "Sunzi Bingfa" reads beautifully, adorned only by sobering photographic plates of the famed terracotta army of the first Qin emperor that turn one[...]
An ancient Chinese treatise on war stresses the importance of speed, sound tactics, subterfuge, discipline, appropriate forms of attack, and accurate intelligence.
This translation--accompanied by the translators' in-depth essays and illuminating line-by-line commentary--offers a fres[...]
An accessible new translation considers the author's lifetime and the context of his work in light of the Warring States period, providing two copies of the original text, one verbatim and the other complemented by running commentary by the translator and by classical Chinese scholars. Reprint.[...]