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Compiled in the second century B.C.E, the Huainanzi clarifies a crucial period in the development of Chinese conceptions of the cosmos, human nature, and the social order. Outlining "all that a modern monarch needs to know," the text emphasizes rigorous self-cultivation and ment…
Columbia University Press's widely anticipated, complete translation of the Huainanzi, published in 2010, opened exciting new pathways in the study of classical Chinese philosophy and literature. Compiled in the second century B.C.E., the Huainanzi is a critical work of early Ch…
<Div><P>Compiled by scholars at the court of Liu An, king of Huainan, in the second century B.C.E, <I>The Huainanzi</I> is a tightly organized, sophisticated articulation of Western Han philosophy and statecraft. Outlining ""all that a modern monarch needs to know,"" the text em…
The dao of the military: Liu An's art of war
by Liu, An
fromTranslations from the Asian classics
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Type: Book
Master Sun's The Art of War, the best-known ancient text on adversarial strategy, is by no means China's only treatise on military affairs. A single chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century B.C.E., synthes…
