For more than two thousand years, Sun-Tzu?sThe Art of Warhas provided military leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception.
Little is known about Sun Tzu (544-496 B.C.) and his life during
the Warring States period after the decline of the Zhou dysnasty,
but his classic, The Art of War, has been one of the central works
of Chinese literature for 2500 years.
John Minford (editor/translator) studied Chinese at Oxford and at
the Australian National University and has taught in China, Hong
Kong, and New Zealand. He edited (with Geremie Barme) Seeds of
Fire- Chinese Voices of Conscience and (with Joseph S. M. Lau)
Chinese Classical Literature- An Anthology of Translations. He has
translated numerous works from the Chinese, including the last two
volumes of the Penguin Classics edition of Cao Xueqin's
eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone and the
martial-arts fiction of the contemporary Hong Kong novelist Louis
Cha.
"The strategic advice that [The Art of War] offers concerns much more than the conduct of war. It is an ancient book of proverbial wisdom, a book of life." —John Minford, from the Introduction
"The strategic advice that [The Art of War] offers concerns much more than the conduct of war. It is an ancient book of proverbial wisdom, a book of life." -John Minford, from the Introduction
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