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Sun Tzu,Shang Yang

The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang

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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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286 printed pages
Publication year
2012
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    ‘Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.’ (ch. 3)
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    Its principal aim is to show how a strong state can be created and maintained, a state strong enough to resist its rivals and ultimately gain dominion over them.
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    the Wade-Giles system – and the other, more recent and introduced by the Chinese themselves, called pinyin.

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