The dao of the military : Liu An's art of war / translated, with an introduction, by Andrew Seth Meyer ; [foreword by John S. Major].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liu, An, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.

Meyer, Andrew Seth.

Series:

Translations from the Asian Classics

Translations from the Asian classics

Standardized Title:

Huainan zi. 15, Bing Lue xun. English.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

Taoist literature, Chinese--Early works to 1800.

Taoist literature, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

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 o

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; A Note on the Translation; Introduction; The Terrain of Life and Death; Root and Branches; Sustain the Perishing, Revive the Extinct; Spiritlike and Enlightened; "Bing lüe" Past and Present; An Overview of the Military; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-146) and index.

ISBN:

9780231526883

0231526881

OCLC:

812924922