The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang

Tzu, Sun

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.

Kustantaja: Wordsworth
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9781853267796
Ilmestymisvuosi: 1998
Kirjastoluokka: 39
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): UK2