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The art of war

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The Art of War, by Sun Tzu (~400 BCE). Translated to English from Chinese by Lionel Giles. Provided by The Internet Classics Archive. English text 10493 words, about 2150 unique, about 1800 lemmata.

Ongoing translation project by Chaered et al., first posted on VL.

This project is currently on hold, because it appears that the available translations are very free, so we should translate directly from the original text; however, we do not have someone available who is fluent enough in Classical Chinese to help with that.

Names: Sun Tzu > Heer Suun.

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Chapters

• I. Laying Plans
• II. Waging War
• III. Attack by Stratagem
• IV. Tactical Dispositions
• V. Energy
• VI. Weak Points and Strong
• VII. Maneuvering
• VIII. Variation in Tactics
• IX. The Army on the March
• X. Terrain
• XI. The Nine Situations
• XII. The Attack by Fire
• XIII. The Use of Spies

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