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Sunzi Bingfa (The Art of War)十一家註孫子
The oldest of the books on the art of war. This is the recension in which eleven men, Cao Cao among them, each set a commentary of his own against the same passages, so that the places where the meaning divides are left standing in the source text just as they are.
The 6,074 graphs of the text and the 3,672 graphs of Cao Cao's commentary have all been translated (13 chapters complete). The commentaries of the other ten men are carried in the original, and the 60 places where the readings part have been raised as issues.
The Middle Book
- The Use of Spies — employing spies23 passages · 468 Chinese characters
- Attack by Fire — striking with fire18 passages · 283 Chinese characters
- The Nine Grounds — the nine kinds of situation55 passages · 1,072 Chinese characters
- Dixing — the lie of the ground24 passages · 548 Chinese characters
- Xingjun — moving the army and reading the enemy32 passages · 615 Chinese characters
- Jiubian — the nine changes10 passages · 248 Chinese characters
- Junzheng — the struggle to get there first25 passages · 477 Chinese characters
- Xushi — the empty and the full28 passages · 605 Chinese characters
- Shi — momentum19 passages · 337 Chinese characters
The Upper Book
- Xing — the shape that shows17 passages · 309 Chinese characters
- Mougong — attacking by stratagem17 passages · 429 Chinese characters
- Zuozhan — the cost of waging war17 passages · 344 Chinese characters
- Ji — Reckoning24 passages · 339 Chinese characters