The Art Of War - Softcover

Tzu, Sun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1514682427 ISBN 13: 9781514682425

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2020

Synopsis

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics of its time. It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, and "for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name." It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.The book was first translated into the French language in 1772 by French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot and a partial translation into English was attempted by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop in 1905. The first annotated English language translation was completed and published by Lionel Giles in 1910. Leaders as diverse as Mao Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap, General Douglas MacArthur and leaders of Imperial Japan have drawn inspiration from the work.

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From the Author

When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it into French. It was not a good translation because, according to Dr. Giles, "It contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not write, and very little indeed of what he did."

Clearly, Dr. Giles' work established much of the groundwork for the work of later translators who published their own editions.

Lionel Giles (29 December 1875 - 22 January 1958) was a British scholar and translator. He served as assistant curator at the British Museum and Keeper of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.His most notable works are his 1910 translation of The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Analects of Confucius.

From the Back Cover

Sun Tzu said: "The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is  matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected."

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1514682427
• ISBN 13: 9781514682425
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 62