Confessions of a researchaholic

July 16, 2016

The art of war

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 11:45 am
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In the standard of Chinese classics, the art of war is crisp, even with repeating the core ideas.

During my first reading as a kid, I focused mainly on the languages.
After my second reading, the core ideas become very clear, even with my now rusty Chinese.

I can probably summarize the book in just a few sentences. But it is still better to read the original Chinese; no translation can do justice to the beautiful writing, and the repetition helps hammer the messages home.

I examined several English versions, all contain very obvious mistakes.
The best version I have seen so far is 孫子兵法論正, 朔雪寒.

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