Conquer and Govern: Early Chinese Military Texts from the Yi Zhou shu 9780824865818

China’s Warring States era (ca. 5th–3rd century BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of

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Table of contents :
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

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