内容简介
Another influential Penguin Classic-now available in our
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For more than two thousand years, Sun-Tzu's The
Art of War has provided military 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. With
this volume's crisp, accessible translation and lively, learned
introduction, even those readers familiar with The Art of
War will experience it anew, finding it more fascinating-and
more chilling-than ever.
作者简介
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
(editor/translator) 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.