SEVEN MILITARY CLASSICS OF ANCIENT CHINA

Author: Translator Ralph D Sawyer

Publisher: Westview Press

Year published: 1993

Pagination: 568pp

Condition: Good in black boards

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Eastern tradition emphasised outwitting ones opponent through speed, stealth, flexibility, and a minimum of force. Safeguarded for centuries by the ruling elites of imperial China, even in modern times these writings have been known to only a handful of Western specialists. In this volume are seven separate essays, written between 500BC. and AD700, that preserve the essential tenets of strategy distilled from the experience of the most brilliant warriors of ancient China. Included are the T'ai Kung's "Six Secret Teachings", Sun Tzu's "Art of War", also the works of Wu-tzu, Wei Liao-tzu, Huang Shih-kung. Also the "Questions and Replies" between T'ai-tsung and Li Wei-kung.