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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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The science of war : Sun Tzu's Art of war re-translated and re-considered / Christopher MacDonald.

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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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Full title

The science of war : Sun Tzu's Art of war re-translated and re-considered / Christopher MacDonald.

Publisher

Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, [2018]

Call Numbers

G 2019/1481

Record Identifier

74VKVBPWlevO

MMS ID

991024237613802626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xxii, 249 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

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.

Publication information

Publisher

Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, [2018]

Date Published

[2018]

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Scope and Contents

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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Full title

The science of war : Sun Tzu's Art of war re-translated and re-considered / Christopher MacDonald.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2018

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2019/1481

Record Identifier

74VKVBPWlevO

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBPWlevO

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ISBN

9789888422692

9888422693

DDC

355.00951

MMS ID

991024237613802626

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