Master Sun's Art of War / translated, with introduction, by Philip J. Ivanhoe.

At head of t.p. SUN TZU 孫子兵法

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Master Sun's Art of War; Chapter 1: Assessing; Chapter 2: Waging War; Chapter 3: Offensive Strategy; Chapter 4: Disposition of Forces; Chapter 5: Strategic Potential; Chapter 6: Tenuousness and Solidity; Chapter 7: The Clash of Arms; Chapter 8: Nine Variations; Chapter 9: Maneuvering Forces; Chapter 10: Dispositions of Terrain; Chapter 11: Nine Types of Terrain; Chapter 12: Attacking with Fire; Chapter 13: On the Use of Spies; Notes; Recommended Readings; Index.

Recommended readings: p. 106-107. Includes index

The art of war / Sun-Tzu ; translated, with an introduction and commentary, by Roger T. Ames ; preface by Rupert Smith.

Published in slip-case, with handmade cover paper embossed with gold Chinese characters of the chapter titles.

"Roger T. Ames's translation and commentary on Sun-tzu's Art of War was first published as Sun-tzu : the art of warfare : the first translation incorporating the Yin-chiiieh-shan texts by Ballantyne Books in 1993 in the series Classics of Ancient China edited by Robert G. Henricks. The text of this Folio edition follows that of the first edition, with some minor emendations and the omission of the parallel Chinese text of The art of war"--T.p.verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter-headings also in Chinese.

Gift of St. Mary's Hall, Boston College.

The Mandate of Heaven : strategy, revolution, and the first European translation of Sunzi's Art of war (1772) / Adam Parr

Includes bibliographical references and index

Translating the Sunzi -- Joseph Amiot's Sunzi -- The thirteen chapters on military art, a work composed in Chinese / by Sunzi -- Interpreting Amiot's Sunzi -- Strategy and revolution -- Joseph Amiot's letter to Henri Berlin, Beijing, September 23, 1766 -- Amiot's life

"The Mandate of Heaven examines the first European version of Sunzi's Art of War, which was translated from Chinese by Joseph Amiot, a French missionary in Beijing, and published in Paris in 1772. His work is presented in English for the first time. Amiot undertook this project following the suppression of the Society of Jesus in France with the aim of demonstrating the value of the China mission to the French government. He addressed his work to Henri Bertin, minister of state, beginning a thirty-year correspondence between the two men. Amiot framed his translation in order to promote a radical agenda using the Chinese doctrine of the "mandate of heaven." This was picked up within the sinophile and radical circle of the physiocrats, who promoted China as a model for revolution in Europe. The work also arrived just as the concept of strategy was emerging in France. Thus Amiot's Sunzi can be placed among seminal developments in European political and strategic thought on the eve of the revolutionary era"-- Provided by publisher

Text in English, with some text in Chinese. English text translated from French version of text originally in Chinese

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