Conquer and Govern : : Early Chinese Military Texts from the Yi Zhou shu / / Robin McNeal.

China's Warring States era (ca. 5th-3rd century BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of the most sophisticated and enduring genres of writing from this period was the military text. Social and political changes were driven in large part by the increasing scope an...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Use the Martial to Dispel Calamity and the Civil to Bring Order
  • Chapter 1: Conquer and Govern: Wen and Wu as a Conceptual Pair in Classical Chinese Thought
  • Chapter 2: Righteous Warfare: Laying Siege to an Enemy in Disorder
  • Part II: Military Chapters of the Yi Zhou shu
  • Chapter 3: Introduction to the Yi Zhou shu: Its Transmission and Reception
  • Chapter 4: Translation and Study of the Military Chapters of the Yi Zhou shu
  • Chapter 5: Dating and Language of the Military Chapters of the Yi Zhou shu
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index