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  • The Art of War

    A New Translation by Michael Nylan

    by Sun Tzu ...
    Translated by Michael Nylan ...
    For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War.Sun Tzu’s ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world forever at odds, his rules for anticipating the motivations and strategies of our competitors never cease to inspire leaders of all kinds.Michael Nylan, in her ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Environmental Equity in China and Beyond

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Michael Nylan, Dr Thomas Hahn ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies
    Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China.Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens of intergenerational justice. Nylan's analysis of lesser known texts from ancient China changes our thinking of Chinese political philosophy and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Lives of Confucius

    Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages

    by Michael Nylan, Thomas Wilson ...
    Confucius—“Master Kung” (551–479 BCE), the Chinese thinker and social philosopher—originated teachings that have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over many centuries. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, justice, and appropriateness in social relationships. In time these values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu dazhuan尚書大傳

    Translated by Fan Lin, Griet Vankeerberghen ...
    by Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks ...
    Series series Classics of Chinese Thought
    An early commentary on one of the Chinese Five ClassicsThe Documents classic (Shangshu) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the first two centuries BCE. The Great Commentary serves as a lens on this commentarial work and reveals how the Documents classic was used to provide answers to pressing societal ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan, T. Corey Brennan ...
    Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome and Han China**.** Approaching the historical material with a comparative perspective, Loewe examines ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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    The Art of War

    A New Translation by Michael Nylan

    by Sun Tzu ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 43 min

    For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War.Sun Tzu’s ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world full of surprising turns, his rules for anticipating the motivations and strategies of our competitors never cease to inspire leaders of all kinds.Michael Nylan, ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Five "Confucian" Classics

    by Mr. Michael Nylan ...
    The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of the imperial period. In this book Michael Nylan offers a sweeping assessment of these ancient texts and shows how their influence spread across East Asia.Nylan begins by tracing the formation of the Five Classics canon in the pre-Han and Han periods, 206 B.C.A.D. 220, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong

    by Liu Zhiji, Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks ...
    Translated by Victor Cunrui Xiong ...
    Series series Classics of Chinese Thought
    The definitive translation of a masterpiece in ancient Chinese historiographyIn the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to write Shitong, in which he would rigorously explore the tradition of historical writing in China. Liu scrutinized hundreds of texts from antiquity to ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

    by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, Hans van Ess ...
    Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive history of China, instead of honorably committing suicide following his castration for “deceiving the ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $31.99 USD

  • The Chinese Pleasure Book

    by Michael Nylan ...
    This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of the body politic. Unlike Western theories of pleasure, early Chinese writings contrast pleasure not with pain but with insecurity, assuming that it is right and proper to seek and take pleasure, as well as experience short-term delight. Equally ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Technical Arts in the Han Histories

    Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu

    Edited by Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Michael Nylan ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.While cultural literacy in early China was grounded in learning the Classics, basic competence in official life was generally predicated on acquiring several forms of technical knowledge. Recent ar... ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Early Chinese Empires

    Qin and Han

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 1 - History of Imperial China
    In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia.The Qin and Han constitute the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD