The Art of War & The Book of Lord Shang
- Authors
- Tzu, Sun
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Tags
- philosophy , classics , history , politics
- ISBN
- 9781848705012
- Date
- 1997-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.71 MB
- Lang
- en
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years.
The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured.
The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.