Peter Lorge

Sun Tzu in the West (eBook, PDF)

The Anglo-American Art of War

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Revisionist history of the reception of the most important Chinese work on strategy, The Art of War, in the West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108905558
• Artikelnr.: 70913364

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.