Authors: Sun Tzu, John Minford (Translator), John Minford
ISBN-13: 9780140439199, ISBN-10: 0140439196
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: Reprint
Scott Brick has performed on film, television and radio. His stage appearances throughout the U.S. include Cyrano, Hamlet, and MacBeth. He's read over 150 audiobooks in four years-for that, AudioFile magazine named Scott "a rising and shining star" and awarded him as one of the magazine's Golden Voices. The Audie- and Earphone Award-winning actor has read several Macmillan Audio audioBooks, including Dune: The Butlerian Jihad and Dune: The Machine Crusade by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. In addition to his acting work, Scott choreographs fight sequences, and was a combatant in films such as Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
Thomas Cleary earned his Ph.D. in East Asian studies at Harvard University and is renowned for his translations of classic Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Pali and Arabic religious texts. His translations include the bestselling 'The Art of War', 'The Essential Tao', 'The Essential Confucius', 'The Essential Koran', and 'The Secret of the Golden Flower'. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
All warfare is based on deception. Thus, when able to attack, we must seem unable. Hold out bait to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
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Preface | 11 | |
A Note on the Translation and Pronunciation | 21 | |
Chronology of Approximate Dynastic Periods | 25 | |
General Introduction and Historical Background | 29 | |
Introduction | 77 | |
The Art of War in Translation | 163 | |
1 | Initial Estimations | 165 |
2 | Waging War | 171 |
3 | Planning Offensives | 175 |
4 | Military Disposition | 181 |
5 | Strategic Military Power | 185 |
6 | Vacuity and Substance | 189 |
7 | Military Combat | 195 |
8 | Nine Changes | 201 |
9 | Maneuvering the Army | 205 |
10 | Configurations of Terrain | 211 |
11 | Nine Terrains | 217 |
12 | Incendiary Attacks | 225 |
13 | Employing Spies | 229 |
Tomb Texts and Lost Writings | 235 | |
Notes to the General Introduction and Historical Background | 249 | |
Selected Notes to the Introduction | 275 | |
Notes to the Translation | 301 | |
Notes to the Tomb Texts and Lost Writings | 331 | |
Selected Bibliography | 337 | |
Glossary | 351 | |
Index | 363 |