The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang Paperback / softback
by Sun Tzu, Shang Yang
Part of the Classics of World Literature series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Publication Date:05/02/1998
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- ISBN:9781853267796
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Publication Date:05/02/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9781853267796
