Solution to Pre-Qin Military Texts

Author: Xu Yong, Chief Editor
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Publishing Date: 2002-08-01
Features: "Preface to the Comprehensive Interpretation of Military Classics" was in the planning, (establishment), and (initiation) stages for 8 years before finally reaching the final manuscript and (typesetting). During these 8 years, the study of military classics experienced rapid progress, and the publishing landscape also underwent significant changes. After its publication, whether the book still maintains a cutting-edge level and whether it can still be well-received by readers remain to be tested. Fortunately, the compilers of this book are all "insiders" in the study of pre-Qin military classics, with multiple successful collaborative experiences. Everyone demonstrated their strengths, coordinated tacitly, revised repeatedly, and made meticulous corrections, fully incorporating direct archaeological materials and research achievements. They tightly grasped the new trends in the academic development of this field and integrated unique insights into the prefaces, punctuation, collation, annotations, and comprehensive interpretations of almost all military classics, differing from other works. The book includes six well-preserved military classics: "The Art of War," "The Art of the Wu," "The Laws of Sima," "The Art of Sun Bin," "The Six (Tactics of the Six," and "The Six Stratagems of Yu Lie." It also appends several books that might be remnants of pre-Qin military classics: "Military (The Military Principles)," "Military (Military Policies)," "The Classic of the Hand," and "The Yin Fu Classic." To collate, punctuate, and briefly annotate such a variety of military classics, adding "prefaces" before the chapters and "comprehensive interpretations" after them, is not only a complex, laborious, rigorous, and meticulous academic activity but also represents the cutting-edge level of this field. Its publication is expected to have a significant impact.