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

by 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 and scale of warfare, and some of the best minds of the day (including Sunzi, whose Art of War is still widely read) devoted their attention to the systematic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831209
• ISBN13: 9780824831202
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"