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𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙖𝙧《孫子兵法》
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The new and internationally acclaimed translation by Michael Nylan, accompanied by her detailed explanatory footnotes.
A richly informative introduction by Michael Nylan.
Fourteen illustrations.
Seven interpretative essays on The Art of War’s central themes by Michael Nylan and Shoufu Yin, Benjamin Daniels, Trenton Wilson, Joseph Passman, Alfreda Murck, Li Ling, and Richard Curt Kraus.
A selected bibliography.
Sun Tzu 孫子(c.500–320. B.C.) is the name used by the unknown Chinese authors of The Art of War and related commentaries.
Michael Nylan is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes?The Art of War?and China’s Early Empires with Michael Loewe,?Yang?Xiong?and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China, The Five “Confucian” Classics,?Lives of Confucius with Thomas A. Wilson, and several essays on feminism and Confucianism.
