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Shadab Siddiqi said: " megan is reading it and reads me some excerpts from time to time. it's pretty cool to read something someone wrote before he was who he is. get it? ...more "

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The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

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Shadab Siddiqi said: " Sun Tzu has explained several thousands of years ago how to go about gaining the advantage in battle...somehow this resonates to this day, in that many lessons in our daily lives (both business and otherwise) are diagramed in terms of when to act and Sun Tzu has explained several thousands of years ago how to go about gaining the advantage in battle...somehow this resonates to this day, in that many lessons in our daily lives (both business and otherwise) are diagramed in terms of when to act and when not to. I have simply taken his work as a book of wisdom and used his tools to identify and create shatterpoints (see clone wars novel) that allow me to make the deepest cuts possible when and if needed. I am thoroughly convinced that if you read this book and acted by it you will position yourselves well and victorious over your adversaries. I think that Sun Tzu was an ascetic warrior who had a gift of summarizing his battle strategies to be united with his world view. Here's a little about SunTzu from wikipedia:

In Chinese Sun Tzu (the original book title) is now commonly called Sunzi bingfa (also transliterated as Sun-tzu ping fa or Sun-tse ping fa). Sunzi is a modern transliteration of Sun Tzu. Bing Fa can be translated as "principal for using forces"[1], "military methods", "army procedures", or "martial arts". Around 298 B.C., the historian Zhuang Zi, writing in the state of Zhao, recorded that Sun Tzu’s theory had been incorporated into the martial arts techniques of both offense and defense and of both armed and unarmed combat. His Bing Fa was the philosophical basis of what we now know as the Asian martial arts. Amiot's AD 1722 translation of Sun Tzu into French (the first time it had been translated into a European language) entitled Art Militaire des Chinois is likely to have influenced translations into the English often titled The Art of War.

The historicity of Sun Tzu is discussed extensively in the introduction to Lionel Giles' 1910 translation of The Art of War available as a Project Gutenberg online text. In Giles' introduction to his translation, he expands on the doubt and confusion which has surrounded the historicity of Sun Tzu.

In 1972 a set of bamboo engraved texts were discovered in a grave near Linyi in Shandong.[2] These have helped to confirm parts of the text which were already known and have also added new sections.[3] This version has been dated to between 134–118 BC,[4] and so rules out older theories that parts of the text had been written much later.

Sun Bin, also known as Sun the Mutilated, allegedly a crippled descendent of Sun Tzu, also wrote a text known as the Art of War. A more accurate title might be the Art of Warfare since this was more directly concerned with the practical matters of warfare, rather than military strategy.[5] At least one translator has used the title The Lost Art of War, referring to the long period of time during which Sun Bin's book was lost. There is, however, no commonality between the content or writing style in Sun Bin and Sun Tzu.

The Art of War has been one of the most popular combat collections in history. Ancient Chinese long viewed this book as one of the entrance test materials, and it is one of the most important collections of books in the Chinese literature. It is said that Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin both read this book while in war. ...more "

Jul 17, 2007 03:22PM · see review