| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 157 pages). |
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Translations from the Asian classics |
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Translations from the Asian classics.
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| Note |
Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York : Columbia University Press, 2010. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-146) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- An overview of the military. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Master Sun's The Art of War, the best-known ancient text on adversarial strategy, is by no means China's only treatise on military affairs. A single chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century B.C.E., synthesizes the entire corpus of military literature inherited from the Chinese classical era. Drawing on all major, existing military writings, as well as other lost sources, it assesses tactics and strategy, logistics, organization, and political economy, as well as cosmology and the fundamental morality of warfare. This powe. |
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Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
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Taoist literature, Chinese -- Early works to 1800.
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Taoist literature, Chinese -- Early works to 1800.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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RELIGION -- Taoism.
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Military art and science. (OCoLC)fst01020874
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Taoist literature, Chinese. (OCoLC)fst01142945
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| Genre/Form |
Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
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| Added Author |
Liu, An, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
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Meyer, Andrew Seth, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Huainan zi. 15, Bing Lüe xun. English. Dao of the military. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231153324 (DLC) 2011047621 (OCoLC)768480241 |
| ISBN |
9780231526883 (electronic bk.) |
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0231526881 (electronic bk.) |
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