Description
Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson.
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years.
The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured.
The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.
Author: Sun Tzu, Shang Yang
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 02/05/1998
Pages: 243
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781853267796
ISBN10: 1853267791
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
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