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"Sun Bin's Art of Warfare is an essential text of Chinese military philosophy and of strategy in general. This book, lost for over two thousand years and rediscovered only in 1972, has not yet reached the prominence of Sunzi's (Sun-tzu) The Art of Warfare, which is the best-known military treatise in the world. Sun Bin's work is an indispensable companion to the work of Sunzi, who is believed to be his ancestor, but deserves to be better known in its own right, both philosophically and historically. Here, noted sinologists D. C. Lau and Roger T. Ames offer an admirably lucid translation, and…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2003Sun Bin: The Art of WarfareState University of New York Press · 288 pages · 9780791454961
- Other · English · 2003State University of New York Press · 253 pages · 9780791454954
Early works to 1800Military art and scienceAsian / Middle Eastern historyDefence strategy, planning & researchNon-Western philosophyMilitary ScienceHistoryPhilosophy
