A major new revisionist history of the reception of the most important Chinese work on strategy, The Art of War, in the West. Peter Lorge contends that the Western interpretation of Sun Tzu's ideas was not based upon Chinese understandings of the text, but upon twentieth-century Western strategic ideas.
A major new revisionist history of the reception of the most important Chinese work on strategy, The Art of War, in the West. Peter Lorge contends that the Western interpretation of Sun Tzu's ideas was not based upon Chinese understandings of the text, but upon twentieth-century Western strategic ideas.
Peter Lorge is Associate Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese and Military History at Vanderbilt University. His previous books include Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century and The Asian Military Revolution.
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Acknowledgments List of images Introduction 1. A brief history of Sunzi in China 2. Journey to the West 3. The armchair captain 4. Stilwell, Chiang Kai-Shek and World War II 5. The China Marines 6. The captain who taught a general 7. 'The concentrated essence of wisdom on the conduct of war' 8. The reaction to Griffith's Sunzi translation 9. Robert Asprey, John Boyd and Sunzi Conclusion Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgments List of images Introduction 1. A brief history of Sunzi in China 2. Journey to the West 3. The armchair captain 4. Stilwell, Chiang Kai-Shek and World War II 5. The China Marines 6. The captain who taught a general 7. 'The concentrated essence of wisdom on the conduct of war' 8. The reaction to Griffith's Sunzi translation 9. Robert Asprey, John Boyd and Sunzi Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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