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Ancient Chinese Warfare

Product Description: The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang dynasty--indeed, war was the force that formed the first cohesive Chinese empire, setting China on a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity that continues to this day...read more

By Ralph D. Sawyer

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9780465021451 | Basic Books, March 1, 2011, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: The history of China is a history of warfare.

A History of Warfare in China, Volume II: The Warring States Period

By Ralph D. Sawyer

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9780813338590 | Basic Books, December 1, 2011, cover price $38.00

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China

Product Description: The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written. It presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emphasizes outwitting one’s opponent through speed, stealth, flexibility, and a minimum of forcean approach very different from that stressed in the West, where the advantages of brute strength have overshadowed more subtle methods...read more

By Mei-Chun Sawyer (contributor) and Ralph D. Sawyer (trans)

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9780465003044 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, November 5, 2007), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written.

The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China

Product Description: The history of China is a history of warfare. Wars have caused dynasties to collapse, fractured the thin façade of national unity, and brought decades of alien occupation. But throughout Chinese history, its warfare has been guided by principles different from those that governed Europe...read more

By Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer (collaborator) and Ralph D. Sawyer

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9780465072057 | Basic Books, February 12, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The history of China is a history of warfare.

The Essential Art Of War

Product Description: Ralph D. Sawyer is the preeminent scholar and translator on Sun-tzu's masterful work. More than 200,000 copies of his Sun-tzu Art of War and more than 55,000 copies of The Complete Art of War have been sold. The Art of War is the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare...read more

By Sun-Tzu Ping-Fa, Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer (collaborator), Ralph D. Sawyer and Sun-tzu

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9780465072040 | Basic Books, October 3, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Ralph D.

The Essence of War: Leadership and Strategy from the Chinese Military Classics

Gathers selections from eight Chinese works on warfare and strategy, covering such topics as the fundamentals of war, command, tactical essentials, leadership, and other principles of military science based on such works as Sun-tzu's Art of War and Sun Pin's Military Methods. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

By Ralph D. Sawyer (editor)

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9780813390499 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, May 11, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Gathers selections from eight Chinese works on warfare and strategy, covering such topics as the fundamentals of war, command, tactical essentials, leadership, and other principles of military science based on such works as Sun-tzu's Art of War and Sun Pin's Military Methods.

The Tao of Spycraft: Intelligence Theory and Practice in Traditional China

Product Description: In The Tao of Spycraft, for the first time anywhere Ralph Sawyer unfolds the long and venerable tradition of spycraft and intelligence work in traditional China, revealing a vast array of theoretical materials and astounding historical developments...read more

By Ralph D. Sawyer

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9780813333038 | Westview Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In The Tao of Spycraft, for the first time anywhere Ralph Sawyer unfolds the long and venerable tradition of spycraft and intelligence work in traditional China, revealing a vast array of theoretical materials and astounding historical developments.

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9780813342405 | Basic Books, February 5, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In The Tao of Spycraft, for the first time anywhere Ralph Sawyer unfolds the long and venerable tradition of spycraft and intelligence work in traditional China, revealing a vast array of theoretical materials and astounding historical developments.

Fire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China

Product Description: China's official histories are replete with intriguing examples of incendiary and aquatic warfare being employed (particularly by the outnumbered) in pivotal roles to turn the tide of battle. In his new book Fire and Water, best-selling author Ralph Sawyer traces the dynamic evolution and development of incendiary warfare in ancient China, from antiquity through the introduction of true gunpowder weapons, including cannon and muskets...read more

By Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer and Ralph D. Sawyer

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9780813340654 | Westview Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: China's official histories are replete with intriguing examples of incendiary and aquatic warfare being employed (particularly by the outnumbered) in pivotal roles to turn the tide of battle.

The Art of War: Sunzi Bing Fa

Product Description: An illuminating new look at the classic primer on warfare. Distinguishing itself from many previous versions, this contemporary translation of Sun-Tzu's landmark text acknowledges the work first and foremost as a masterpiece of military strategy...read more

By Mei-Chun Sawyer, Ralph D. Sawyer and Sun-tzu

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9781566192972 | Barnes & Noble, August 1, 2003, cover price $7.98 | About this edition: An illuminating new look at the classic primer on warfare.

The Tao of War: The Martial Tao Te Ching

A military interpretation of the Tao Te Ching by a ninth-century Chinese commander offers lessons for the struggles of contemporary life that provide action plans for managing conflict and promoting peace. Reprint.

By Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer (trans) and Ralph D. Sawyer (trans)

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9780813340814 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, December 17, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A military interpretation of the Tao Te Ching by a ninth-century Chinese commander offers lessons for the struggles of contemporary life that provide action plans for managing conflict and promoting peace.

Military Methods of the Art of War

Product Description: "Ralph Sawyer's translation of Sun Pin...adds in an important way to our knowledge of the place of warfare in classical Chinese civilization."--John KeeganThe enormous renewed popularity of Sun Tzu's The Art of War has heightened awareness of the great Chinese tradition of writing on the theory and practice of war...read more

By Sun Pin and Ralph D. Sawyer (trans)

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9781586636081 | Metro Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $9.98 | About this edition: "Ralph Sawyer's translation of Sun Pin.

The Art of War

Product Description: This book was originally intended to be a set of principals designed to maximize the chances for military victory and national survival and minimize the chances of military defeat and human loss. With this view firmly in mind, Sawyer provides the most detailed introduction and commentary yet offered to the Art of War, its author and his age...read more

By Ralph D. Sawyer (trans)

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9781586635602 | Metro Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $7.98 | About this edition: This book was originally intended to be a set of principals designed to maximize the chances for military victory and national survival and minimize the chances of military defeat and human loss.

The Tao of Peace: Lessons from Ancient China on the Dynamics of Conflict

Product Description: Wang Chen, a ninth-century military commander, was sickened by the carnage that had plagued the glorious Tang dynasty for decades. "All within the seas were poisoned," he wrote, "and pain and disaster was rife throughout the land...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Meri-Chun Lee Sawyer (trans) and Ralph D. Sawyer

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9781570625114 | Shambhala Pubns, January 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Wang Chen, a ninth-century military commander, was sickened by the carnage that had plagued the glorious Tang dynasty for decades.

One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies: Battle and Tactics of Chinese Warfare

Product Description: One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies was compiled in the fifteenth century, during the Ming Dynasty, as a handbook of tactics based on Chinese military classics. Translated into English for the first time, this unique work draws on over two thousand years of experience in warfare to present a distillation of one hundred key strategic principles...read more

By Chi Liu, Mei-Chun Sawyer and Ralph D. Sawyer (trans)

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9780813328614 | Westview Pr, May 14, 1998, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies was compiled in the fifteenth century, during the Ming Dynasty, as a handbook of tactics based on Chinese military classics.

The Six Secret Teachings on the Way of Strategy: Tai-Kung Liu Tao

By Shang Lu, Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer and Ralph D. Sawyer (trans)

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9781570622472 | Shambhala Pubns, March 1, 1997, cover price $12.00

Ling Chi Ching: El Antiguo Oraculo Chino

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By Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer and Ralph D. Sawyer

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9788441402331 | Edaf Antillas, February 1, 1997, cover price $19.95

The Art of the Warrior: Leadership and Strategy from the Chinese Military Classics : With Selections from the Seven Military Classics of Ancient China and Sun Pin's Military

Gathers selections from eight Chinese works on warfare and strategy (view table of contents)

By Kendra Crossen (editor), Mei-Chun Sawyer (editor), Ralph D. Sawyer (editor), Sun Tzu II (editor) and Peter Turner (editor)

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9781570621635 | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, October 1, 1996), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Gathers selections from eight Chinese works on warfare and strategy

Unorthodox Strategies for the Everyday Warrior: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Competitor

Product Description: 0813312280 the Seven Military Classics of Ancient China 081331951x Sun Tzu: Art of War 0813330858 the Complete Art of War : Sun Tzu/Sun Pin 0813388880 Sun Pin: Military Methods

By Chi Liu, Mei-Chun Sawyer and Ralph D. Sawyer

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9780813328607 | Westview Pr, August 15, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 0813312280 the Seven Military Classics of Ancient China 081331951x Sun Tzu: Art of War 0813330858 the Complete Art of War : Sun Tzu/Sun Pin 0813388880 Sun Pin: Military Methods

The Complete Art of War

Product Description: Sun Tzu’s Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years, and they continue to reward careful study. The Military Methods of Sun Pin, the great-grandson of Sun Tzu, is a brilliant elaboration on his ancestor’s work, which has been lost for nearly two millennia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sun Pin, Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer, Ralph D. Sawyer (trans) and Sun-tzu

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9780813330853 | Basic Books, June 6, 1996, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Sun Tzu’s Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written.

Ling Ch'I Ching: A Classic Chinese Oracle

Product Description: For centuries, the Ling Ch'i Ching has been a popular source of wisdom and an oracle of fortune telling. The ritual for consultation involves throwing 12 disks that are said to be imbued with power. The disk would be arranged in rows yielding one of 125 possible trigrams...read more

By Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer (trans) and Ralph D. Sawyer (editor)

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9781570620836 | Shambhala Pubns, November 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: For centuries, the Ling Ch'i Ching has been a popular source of wisdom and an oracle of fortune telling.

Sun Pin: Military Methods

Product Description: 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. This tradition has always emphasized that warfare is as much the deployment of spiritual and mental forces as of combat forces, as much a matter of patience and attention as of brute strength...read more

By Ralph D. Sawyer (trans) and Sun Tzu II

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9780813388878 | Westview Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: A description of the awesome army commanded by Sun Pin, a direct descendent of the legendary Sun Tzu.

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9780813388885 | Westview Pr, April 26, 1995, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: 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.

Sun-Tzu: The Art of War

Product Description: The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by such great Asian war leaders as Mao Tse-tung, Giap, and Yamamoto...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ralph D. Sawyer (trans)

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9780813319513 | Basic Books, February 10, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare.

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China: Wu Ching Chi Shu

Presents classic works on military history and tactics, including 'The Methods of the Ssu-Ma,' 'Sun-tzu's Art of War,' and 'T'ai Kung's Six Secret Teachings'

By Mei-Chun Sawyer (editor) and Ralph D. Sawyer (editor)

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9780813312286 | Basic Books, May 5, 1993, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Presents classic works on military history and tactics, including 'The Methods of the Ssu-Ma,' 'Sun-tzu's Art of War,' and 'T'ai Kung's Six Secret Teachings'

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