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The mandate of heaven : strategy, revolution, and the first European translation of Sunzi's Art of war (1772)
- Title
- The mandate of heaven : strategy, revolution, and the first European translation of Sunzi's Art of war (1772) / by Adam Parr.
- Author
- Parr, Adam, 1965-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sunzi, active 6th century B.C.
- Description
- vii, 323 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The Mandate of Heaven examines the first European version of Sunzi's Art of War, which was translated from Chinese by Joseph Amiot, a French missionary in Beijing, and published in Paris in 1772. His work is presented in English for the first time. Amiot undertook this project following the suppression of the Society of Jesus in France with the aim of demonstrating the value of the China mission to the French government. He addressed his work to Henri Bertin, minister of state, beginning a thirty-year correspondence between the two men. Amiot framed his translation in order to promote a radical agenda using the Chinese doctrine of the "mandate of heaven." This was picked up within the sinophile and radical circle of the physiocrats, who promoted China as a model for revolution in Europe. The work also arrived just as the concept of strategy was emerging in France. Thus Amiot's Sunzi can be placed among seminal developments in European political and strategic thought on the eve of the revolutionary era"--
- Series Statement
- Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 26
- Uniform Title
- Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 26.
- Alternative Title
- Strategy, revolution, and the first European translation of Sunzi's Art of war (1772)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English, with some text in Chinese. English text translated from French version of text originally in Chinese.
- Contents
- Translating the Sunzi -- Joseph Amiot's Sunzi -- The thirteen chapters on military art, a work composed in Chinese / by Sunzi -- Interpreting Amiot's Sunzi -- Postscript: Strategy and revolution -- Appendix 1: Joseph Amiot's letter to Henri Berlin, Beijing, September 23, 1766 -- Appendix 2: Amiot's life.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-776
- ISBN
- 9789004414495
- 9004414495
- 9789004416215 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019037126
- 40029619804
- OCLC
- 1108546918
- Author
- Parr, Adam, 1965- author.
- Title
- The mandate of heaven : strategy, revolution, and the first European translation of Sunzi's Art of war (1772) / by Adam Parr.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 26Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 26.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Text in English, with some text in Chinese. English text translated from French version of text originally in Chinese.
- Added Author
- Sunzi, active 6th century B.C. Sunzi bing fa. English.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Parr, Adam, The mandate of heaven Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004416215 (DLC) 2019037127
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029619804
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-776