Another influential Penguin Classic-now available in oursignature black-spine dress For more than two thousand years, Sun-Tzu's TheArt of War has provided military leaders with essential adviceon battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employingcunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it hasalso become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival andsuccess, whether in battle, in business, or in relationships. Withthis volume's crisp, accessible translation and lively, learnedintroduction, even those readers familiar with The Art ofWar will experience it anew, finding it more fascinating-andmore chilling-than ever.
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Little is known about Sun Tzu (544-496 B.C.) and his life duringthe Warring States period after the decline of the Zhou dysnasty,but his classic, The Art of War, has been one of the central worksof Chinese literature for 2500 years. John Minford(editor/translator) studied Chinese at Oxford and at the AustralianNational University and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and NewZealand. He edited (with Geremie Barme) Seeds of Fire: ChineseVoices of Conscience and (with Joseph S. M. Lau) Chinese ClassicalLiterature: An Anthology of Translations. He has translatednumerous works from the Chinese, including the last two volumes ofthe Penguin Classics edition of Cao Xueqin's eighteenth-centurynovel The Story of the Stone and the martial-arts fiction of thecontemporary Hong Kong novelist Louis Cha.
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