The science of war : Sun Tzu's Art of war re-translated and re-considered / Christopher MacDonald.
The science of war : Sun Tzu's Art of war re-translated and re-considered / Christopher MacDonald.
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Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, [2018]
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G 2019/1481
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English
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Physical content
xxii, 249 pages : maps ; 22 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Sun Tzu the man and Sun-tzu the text -- Art of war or science of war? -- Can a commander win the Sun Tzu way? -- Sun Tzu and the PRC -- Translator's note -- Selected quotations -- The Sun-tzu in translation -- The Sun-tzu in Chinese.
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Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, [2018]
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
For more than two thousand years strategists in China have followed a single, coherent system of military principles and teachings. This book tells how those principles and teachings first crystallized into the treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, how they were honed by generals and rulers in the centuries that followed, and how they guide the decision-...
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The science of war : Sun Tzu's Art of war re-translated and re-considered / Christopher MacDonald.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/1481
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74VKVBPWlevO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBPWlevO
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9789888422692
9888422693
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355.00951
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991024237613802626