Research Catalog

Title

Sun Pin military methods / translated, with introduction and commentary by Ralph D. Sawyer, with the collaboration of Mei-chün Lee Sawyer.

Author

Sun, Bin, active 4th century B.C.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sawyer, Ralph D.
• Sawyer, Mei-chün.

Description

xvii, 392 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

The enormous recent popularity in America of Sun-tzu's Art of War has heightened awareness of the great Chinese tradition of writing on theory and practice of war, and new generations of readers have.

Series Statement

History and warfare

Uniform Title

• Sun Bin bing fa. English
• History and warfare.

Alternative Title

Sun Bin bing fa.

Subject

Military art and science > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Bibliography in Chinese and Japanese.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Capture of P'ang Chuan -- Audience with King Wei -- The questions of King Wei -- Ch'en Chi enquires about fortifications -- Selecting the troops -- Lunar warfare -- Eight formations -- Treasures of terrain -- Preparation of strategic power -- Nature of the army -- Implementing selection -- Killing officers -- Expanding Ch'i -- Strengthening the army -- Ten deployments -- Ten questions -- Regulating mailed troops -- Distinction between guest and host -- Those who excel -- Five names, five respects -- The army's losses -- The General's righteousness -- The General's virtue -- The General's defeats -- The General's losses -- Male and female cities -- Five criteria, nine seizings -- The dense and diffuse -- Unorthodox and orthodox -- Five teachings -- Sun Pin on cavalry -- Attacking the heart.

ISBN

• 0813388872 (alk. paper)
• 0813388880 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94042046^

OCLC

• 31606666
• SCSB-11325815

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library