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Total pages original book: 256
Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 22M30S (5.8 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson.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.
Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural History, Literary Essays, Warfare & Defence, Theory Of Warfare & Military Science, Contemporary Fiction, Classic Books & Novels, Politics & Government