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Smashing the Sun Tzu Myth: Chinese Strategy in Context book cover

1st Edition

Smashing the Sun Tzu Myth Chinese Strategy in Context

Edited By Peter Lorge Copyright 2027
184 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Smashing the Sun Tzu Myth: Chinese Strategy in Context explores the historical foundations, contemporary relevance, and enduring influence of Chinese strategic thought from antiquity to the present day. Bringing together leading scholars of Chinese military history and strategic studies, this volume examines the evolution of Chinese strategy through diverse historical periods, intellectual... Read more

Introduction - Lorge & Tanner; 1 The Case for Contextualizing Sunzi - Sullivan; 2 Clausewitz, Amiot, and Sunzi: The Art of War's First European Translation and the Prussian Military School - Bellinger; 3 Timekeeping Systems as Cognitive Windows into Chinese Strategic Thought - McClenon; 4 Cutting the Feet to Fit the Shoes 削足适履 - Lorge; 5 A Case Study in Chinese Strategy: The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950 - Tanner; 6 China's Strategy in the Korean War and Its Impact - Li; 7 The PLA considers Sunzi's Art of War: How History Confirms the Relevance of the Sunzi to Modern Warfare - Metcalf; 8 China's Maritime Strategic Idiom - Holmes; 9 Chinese Maritime (Militia) Strategy: Increasingly More Exceptional Than Unique - Erickson; 10 Sunzi in the Taiwan Strait: Exploring the Relevance of Classical Chinese Strategic Thought to PRC Policy - Meyer; 11 Myth-busting: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Chinese Strategic Culture - Wilson

Biography

Peter Lorge is Associate Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese and military history at Vanderbilt University.

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