The Art of War: Translated and Introduced by Peter Harris

by Sun Tzu, Peter Harris (Translator)

Overview

The ancient Chinese military classic that is widely admired today by both military and business strategists—in a new translation, with new notes and commentary.

For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has provided leaders with essential tactical and management advice. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone in the West for achieving success, whether on the battlefield or in business. This Everyman's Library edition features a brilliant new translation by Peter Harris. Alongside the pithy and powerful ancient text, Harris includes:
—Extracts from the canon of traditional Chinese commentators who have explained Sun Tzu's wisdom over the centuries
—Notes
—A bibliography
—A chronology of Chinese dynasties
—A map
—An illuminating introduction on the warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu and the role of The Art of War in history and today

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101908006
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Series:	Everyman's Library Classics Series
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	427,712
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)

About the Author

SUN TZU was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in China in the 6th century BC. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and Eastern philosophy. Sun Tzu is revered in China as a legendary historical figure. His birth name was Sun Wu; the name Sun Tzu by which he is best known is an honorific that means "Master Sun."

PETER HARRIS graduated from Oxford in classical Chinese and has a Ph.D. in Asian history from Monash. He lived and worked for many years in different parts of Asia including China, where he was representative of the Ford Foundation and a visiting professor at Nanjing University. He is now a Senior Fellow in the China Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Volumes he edited for Everyman's Library include The Travels of Marco Polo, The Art of War, Zen Poems, Three Hundred Tang Poems, and Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Laying Plans
Chapter 2: Waging War
Chapter 3: Attack by Stratagem
Chapter 4: Tactical Dispositions
Chapter 5: Energy
Chapter 6: Weak Points and Strong
Chapter 7: Manoeuvring
Chapter 8: Variation in Tactics
Chapter 9: The Army on the March
Chapter 10: Terrain
Chapter 11: The Nine Situations
Chapter 12: Attack by Fire
Chapter 13: The Use of Spies

What People are Saying About This

Tony Soprano

Been reading that-- that book you told me about. You know, The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I mean here's this guy, a Chinese general, wrote this thing 2400 years ago, and most of it still applies today! Balk the enemy's power. Force him to reveal himself. You know most of the guys that I know, they read Prince Machiabelli, and I had Carmela go and get the Cliff Notes once and -- he's okay. But this book is much better about strategy.

From the Publisher

"Scott Brick's steady, imperative tone conveys Sun Tzu's certainty. Shelly Frasier's smooth counterpoint...balances Brick's pronouncements. Transitions between the two are flawless." —-AudioFile

Samuel B. Griffith

"As a reflection of the Chinese mind, this little work is as relevant as any Confucian classic." -- Brigadier General, ret. U.S. Marine Corps, is the author of The Battle for Guadalcanal, Peking and People and People's Wars, The Chinese People's Liberation Army, and editor and translator of Mao Tse-tung: On Guerilla War.

Editorial Reviews

Like Thucydides, [Sun Tzu] has a reputation today at least as great as it was well over two millennia ago . . . Given the peculiarly personal acumen and insight that inform Sun Tzu’s brief, sometimes enigmatic, but always practical Art of War . . . we are surely reading the words of an acutely intelligent military man with a subtle, original mind and a wealth of experience all his own.”
—from the Introduction by Peter Harris

From the Publisher

This year's crop of Penguin "Great Ideas" volumes offers another eclectic dozen works that shaped society from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century. The books are fairly no frills, but the price isn't bad. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

With editorial notes and a new translation by James Trapp, this beautifully bound book is a must for any strategist or business man, or any everyday man that is looking for tips on how to rise to the top of whatever corporate or social ladder he is climbing.

City Book Review