Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare : The First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-ch'ueh-shan Texts - Roger T. Ames

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Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare

The First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-ch'ueh-shan Texts

By: Roger T. Ames

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Hardcover | 2 March 1993

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The most widely read military classic in human history, newly translated and revised in accordance with newly discovered materials of unprecedented historical significance.

Fluid, crisp and rigorously faithful to the original, this new text is destined to stand as the definitive version of this cornerstone work of Classical Chinese. Of compelling importance not only to students of Chinese history and literature, but to all readers interested in the art or the philosophy of war.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
The "New" Sun-tzu	p. 3
Archaeology: A Revolution in the Study of Early China	p. 9
The Excavation at Yin-chueh-shan	p. 13
The "One or Two 'Master Suns'" Debate	p. 16
Sun Wu as a Historical Person	p. 32
The Reconstructed Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare	p. 36
Analysis of Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare	p. 39
Wisdom and Warfare	p. 39
The Classical Chinese World View: The Uncommon Assumptions	p. 43
Some Classical Western Assumptions: A "Two-World" Theory	p. 45
Some Classical Chinese Assumptions: A "This-World" View	p. 49
Centripetal Harmony and Authority	p. 64
Warfare as the Art of Contextualizing	p. 67
Strategic Advantage (shih)	p. 71
Strategic Advantage (shih) and Strategic Positioning (hsing)	p. 82
According with the Enemy (yin)	p. 83
An Attitude Toward Warfare	p. 85
The Exemplary Commander	p. 87
Foreknowledge (chih)	p. 89
Introduction to the Translations	p. 97
Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare: A Translation
Sun-tzu: Part I
The Thirteen-Chapter Text	p. 101
On Assessments	p. 102
On Waging Battle	p. 106
Planning the Attack	p. 110
Strategic Dispositions (hsing)	p. 114
Strategic Advantage (shih)	p. 118
Weak Points and Strong Points	p. 122
Armed Contest	p. 128
Adapting to the Nine Contingencies (pien)	p. 134
Deploying the Army	p. 138
The Terrain	p. 146
The Nine Kinds of Terrain	p. 152
The Incendiary Attack	p. 164
Using Spies	p. 168
Sun-tzu: Part II
Text Recovered from the Yin-chueh-shan Han Dynasty Strips	p. 173
The Questions of Wu	p. 174
[The Four Contingencies]	p. 178
The Yellow Emperor Attacks the Red Emperor	p. 182
The Disposition [of the Terrain] II	p. 186
[An Interview with the King of Wu]	p. 190
Sun-tzu: Part III
Text Recovered from Later Works	p. 197
A Conversation between the King of Wu and Sun Wu	p. 199
Sun Wu Discusses the Commander	p. 225
Sun Wu Discusses Deploying the Army	p. 235
The Prognostications of Sun-tzu	p. 239
Sun Wu Discusses the "Eight-Division Formation"	p. 243
The Classic of the Thirty-two Ramparts	p. 247
Han Dynasty Bamboo Strips from Ta-tung Country	p. 249
Miscellaneous	p. 255
Appendix	p. 261
Background to the Excavation at Yin-chueh-shan	p. 261
Dating the Tombs and Identifying the Occupants	p. 266
The First Published Reports	p. 268
The Bamboo Strip Manuscripts and Their Dates	p. 271
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography of Works Cited	p. 305
Index	p. 311
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