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The Dao of the Military. Liu An's Art of War.
Meyer
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Description for The Dao of the Military. Liu An's Art of War.
Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
Master Sun's The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century BCE, 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 powerful work set out to become the last word on military matters, subsuming and replacing ... Read more
Master Sun's The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century BCE, 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 powerful work set out to become the last word on military matters, subsuming and replacing ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Translations from the Asian Classics
Number of Pages
176
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231153324
SKU
V9780231153324
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About Meyer
Andrew Seth Meyer is associate professor of history at Brooklyn College. With John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, and Harold D. Roth, he is the cotranslator and coeditor of The Huainanzi and The Essential Huainanzi. John S. Major taught East Asian history at Dartmouth College from 1971 to 1984. Since then, as an independent scholar, writer, editor, and lecturer, ... Read more
Reviews for The Dao of the Military. Liu An's Art of War.
The Dao of the Military makes a welcome addition to the growing literature on early Chinese strategy. The translation is exacting and felicitous. It should serve well for those interested in the history of Chinese thought and Chinese military thought.
Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania With its highly competent translation and penetrating analysis, this volume will be a ... Read more
Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania With its highly competent translation and penetrating analysis, this volume will be a ... Read more