EAN: 9780231133838

THE ART OF WAR - SUN TSU KARTONIERT (TB)

Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E.  The Art of War has had an enormous
impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and
occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt
to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations  and while
numerous editions of the work exist  Victor Mair's translation is the first to remain true to
the original structure and essential style of the text. Mair's fidelity to the original  along
with his insightful commentary and reliance on archaeologically recovered manuscripts  breaks
new ground in solving The Art of War's difficult textual and contextual problems. He confronts
complex questions concerning the authorship of the work  asserting that Sun Wu  a supposed
strategist of the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 B.C.E.) to whom the text is traditionally
attributed  never existed. Instead  Mair claims that The Art of War coalesced over a period of
around seventy-five years  from the middle of the fourth century to the first quarter of the
third century B.C.E.

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