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Title: THE ART OF WAR / THE BOOK OF LORD SHANG
By: Tzu Sun, Shang Yang, Robert Wilkinson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1853267791
ISBN 13: 9781853267796
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Publisher: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD
Pub. date: 11 June, 1997
Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Pages: 256
Translated from: Chinese
Description: The two political works in this text are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from an epoch in Chinese history known as the "Period of the Warring States" (4003 - 221 BC), they anticipate by nearly 2000 years Niccolo Machiavelli's treatises on the same subjects.
Synopsis: 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.
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Imprint: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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