The Science of War: Sun Tzu's Art of War re-translated and re-considered - Paperback

by Christopher MacDonald (Author)

For more than two thousand years strategists in China have followed a single, coherent system of military principles and teachings. In The Science of War, Christopher MacDonald tells how those principles and teachings first crystallized into the treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, how they were honed by generals and rulers in the centuries that followed, and how they guide the decision-making of China's military and political leaders to this day. Supported by a masterly new translation of Sun Tzu's classic, MacDonald analyses what the application of that ancient system of thought, borne into the twenty-first century on the back of China's remarkable economic resurgence, bodes for military strategy in the region. The result is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what the PRC is planning for Taiwan, the South China Sea and the Western Pacific.

Author Biography

Christopher MacDonald is a translator and interpreter based in Cardiff. He spent a year in Xian, in 1985, and has since lived and worked in Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai, as a translator, interpreter, and trade and investment consultant. From 1997 to 1999, he was the interpreter for the British side in the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group. He holds an M.A. in translation and interpretation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California, and is studying for an M.Sc. in sustainability and adaptation at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales. The Science of War is his first book.