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The Art of War

By Sun Tzu
Translated by Peter Harris

By Sun Tzu
Translated by Peter Harris

By Sun Tzu
Translated by Peter Harris

By Sun Tzu
Translated by Peter Harris

By Sun Tzu and Thomas Cleary
Read by Lloyd James
Translated by Thomas Cleary

By Sun Tzu and Thomas Cleary
Read by Lloyd James
Translated by Thomas Cleary

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    About The Art of War

    A new translation of the ancient Chinese military classic that is widely admired by military and business strategists—with an introduction that provides sweeping historical context, and notes featuring contemporary commentary on Sun Tzu’s wisdom over the centuries.

    For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has provided leaders with essential tactical and management advice. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone in the West for achieving success, whether on the battlefield or in business.
     
    This Vintage Classics edition features a brilliant translation by Peter Harris, first published by Everyman’s Library in 2018. Alongside the pithy and powerful ancient text, Harris includes:
         • Notes
         • A bibliography
         • A chronology of Chinese dynasties
         • A map
         • Extracts from the canon of classical Chinese commentators
         • An illuminating introduction on the warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu and the role of The Art of War in history and today

    About The Art of War

    A new translation of the ancient Chinese military classic that is widely admired by military and business strategists—with an introduction that provides sweeping historical context, and notes featuring contemporary commentary on Sun Tzu’s wisdom over the centuries.

    For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has provided leaders with essential tactical and management advice. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone in the West for achieving success, whether on the battlefield or in business.
     
    This Vintage Classics edition features a brilliant translation by Peter Harris, first published by Everyman’s Library in 2018. Alongside the pithy and powerful ancient text, Harris includes:
         • Notes
         • A bibliography
         • A chronology of Chinese dynasties
         • A map
         • Extracts from the canon of classical Chinese commentators
         • An illuminating introduction on the warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu and the role of The Art of War in history and today

    About The Art of War

    For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in relationships. Now, in this crisp, accessible new translation, John Minford brings this seminal work to life for today’s readers. A lively, learned introduction, chronologies and suggested further reading are among the valuable apparatus included in this authoritative volume. Even those readers familiar with The Art of War will experience it anew, finding it more fascinating – and more chilling – than ever.

    Little is known about Sun Tzu (544-496 B.C.) and his life during the Warring States period after the decline of the Zhou dysnasty, but his classic, The Art of War, has been one of the central works of Chinese literature for 2500 years.

    John Minford studied Chinese at Oxford and at the Australian National University and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. He edited (with Geremie Barme) Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience and (with Joseph S. M. Lau) Chinese Classical Literature: An Anthology of Translations. He has translated numerous works from the Chinese, including the last two volumes of the Penguin Classics edition of Cao Xueqin’s eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone and the martial-arts fiction of the contemporary Hong Kong novelist Louis Cha.

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    About Sun Tzu

    SUN TZU was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in China in the 6th century BC. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has… More about Sun Tzu

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    SUN TZU was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in China in the 6th century BC. Sun… More about Sun Tzu

    About Thomas Cleary

    Thomas Cleary holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He is the translator of more… More about Thomas Cleary

    Product Details

    Category: Military History | Nonfiction Classics | Philosophy | Politics

    Paperback | $9.95
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 21, 2021 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593314661

    Category: Military History | Nonfiction Classics | Philosophy | Politics

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 21, 2021 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780593467336

    Category: Philosophy | Military History | Business | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $7.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Apr 03, 2018 | 115 Minutes | ISBN 9780525592419
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    “Like Thucydides, [Sun Tzu] has a reputation today at least as great as it was well over two millennia ago . . . Given the peculiarly personal acumen and insight that inform Sun Tzu’s brief, sometimes enigmatic, but always practical Art of War . . . we are surely reading the words of an acutely intelligent military man with a subtle, original mind and a wealth of experience all his own.”
    —from the Introduction by Peter Harris

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