One can have nothing but praise for the high quality of Professor Mair’s translation, so let me turn to the other aspects of this work that make it so valuable. It is particularly gratifying to those of us who have labored to convince the broader field of Chinese studies of the importance of the military and military thought in Chinese culture, that a senior scholar previously associated with the fields of Buddhism and literature would not only devote so much time and energy to the Sunzi, but also find it so deeply engaging. Professor Mair is well known in the field of China studies for his philologic and linguistic work, and we are fortunate to have such a mature and skilled practitioner of these arcane arts turn his attention to the foundation text of Chinese military studies. It joins the ranks of the half dozen first-rate translations of the Sunzi, and brings a new, and extremely useful perspective to the text: that of a pure sinologist. Victor Mair’s excellent new translation of Sunzi’s (Sun Tzu) Art of War is a welcome addition to the pre-existing body of translations of this text.
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