Sun-tzu: the art of warfare : the first English translation incorporating the recently discovered Yin-chʻüeh-shan texts

SUN-TZU ·THE ART OF WARFARE The First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-ch'iieh-shan Texts ----=----Translated, with an introduction and commentary, by Roger Ames

SUN""TZU

THE ART OF WARFARE

THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION INCORPORATING THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED YIN-CH'UEH-SHAN TEXTS

TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY, BY ROGER

T.

AMES

A Ballantine Book P ublished by The Random House Publish ing Group

Translation and new tC>..'t copyright ((!) 1993 by Roger T. Ames All righiS reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Convencions. Published in the United Stares by Ballancine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., N ew York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Can•da Limited, Toronto. Ballantine and colophon are registered trademorks of Rondom House, Inc. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Wing Tek Lum for permission to reprint "Chinese Hot Pot" from Expormdirrg tlr< Doubiful PoirriS (B•mboo Ridge Press) by Wing Tek Lum, Copyriglu 0 1987 Wing Tek Lum. Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Sun-tzu, 6th cent. B.C. [Sun-tzu ping fa. English ) Sun-tzu : the art of war : the fi rst English translation incorporating the recently discovered Yin-ch' iieh-sh•n texts I translated, with an introduction and commentary, by Roger T. Ames. - I st ed. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-345-36239-X 1. Military art and science-Early works to 1800. I. Ames, Roger T., 1947- . II. 1itlc. Ul01.S95 1993b 355.02-