https://knigausa.com Just another WordPress site Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:24:09 +0000 ru-RU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://knigausa.com/product/art-of-war-the-book-of-lord-shang/ Sat, 18 May 2024 11:48:03 +0000 https://knigausa.com/product/art-of-war-the-book-of-lord-shang/ 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.

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