Sun Tzu's The Art of War Plus The Original Chinese Revealed
Sun-Tzu and Gary Gagliardi





Format: Hardcover, 160pp.
ISBN: 9781929194193
Publisher: Clearbridge Publishing
Pub. Date: January 2003

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Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:

Winner of the 2003 Independent Publishers Book Award for Best Multicultural Non-fiction. Recognized as the newest and most accurate translation of Sun Tzu's ancient classic with six significant improvements over other translations:

1. It uses the Taipei compilation of the main Chinese textual traditions instead of older fragmentary sources.
2. It individually translates each Chinese ideogram to let readers see the precise formulas in the original text.
3. It offers English sentences that clarify the central meaning of the text but chooses words to demonstrate the range of meaning in the original.
4. It preserves the original weight of ideas by creating one and only one line of English for each line of Chinese.
5. It duplicates the original format of the Chinese by grouping and numbering lines clearly to preserve the original contextual associations.
6. It assumes that Sun Tzu was rigorously consistent in his ideas. The imprecise word usage that creates contradictions in other versions are eliminated.

Excerpt

The text looks like this, except that in the book, each column is on a facing page.

Character Translation	English Translation
High mound do not face,	Do not take a position facing high ground.
Back walls do not oppose,	Do not oppose those with their backs to the wall.
Pretend flee do not follow,	Do not follow those who attempt to flee.
Sharp soldiers do not attack,	Do not attack the enemy's strongest men.
Bait war do not feed,	Do not swallow the enemy's bait.
Returning home legion do not block,	Do not block an army that is headed home.
Encircling troops must watch-tower,	Leave an escape route for a surrounded army.
Poor pillage do not force,	Do not press a desperate foe.
Here use war’s method also.	This is the art of war.

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About the Author and Translator

Gary Gagliardi is America's leading expert on using the Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. He has created three ground-breaking works on Sun Tzu. 1) He authored the first published English-language transliteration of The Art of War. 2) He mapped the key elements of Sun Tzu’s competitive system into graphical diagrams, following the traditional methodology used all ancient Chinese sciences. 3) He developed a 306 page, stanza-by-stanza explanation of Sun Tzu’s competitive system in the terms of modern competitive principles and game theory.

Mr. Gagliardi has also written a large number of other adaptations applying Sun Tzu’s methods to everything from career building, management, running a small business, marketing, selling, and even romance and parenting.

Mr. Gagliardi began studying Sun Tzu 30 years ago, using Sun Tzu's secrets in a successful career in sales, marketing, and management. He went on to start his own software company (which became a multimillion dollar business, twice appearing on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies) developing his first Sun Tzu adaptation for his company's distributors and sales people. In 1996, he sold his company, to focus full time on speaking and writing about Sun Tzu's strategic principles.

Gary lives near Seattle with his wife.


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