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

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 157 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Translations from the Asian classics
Translations from the Asian classics.
Note Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-146) and index.
Contents Introduction -- An overview of the military.
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 of warfare. This powe.
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Subject Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Military art and science.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Subject Taoist literature, Chinese -- Early works to 1800.
Taoist literature, Chinese.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Early works.
Added Author Liu, An, 179 B.C.-122 B.C.
Meyer, Andrew Seth, translator.
Added Title Huainanzi. 15, Bing lüe xun. English.
Other Form: Print version: Huainan zi. 15, Bing Lüe xun. English. Dao of the military. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231153324 (DLC) 2011047621 (OCoLC)768480241
ISBN 9780231526883 (electronic book)
0231526881 (electronic book)
9780231153324
0231153325
9780231153331
0231153333