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An Introduction to Sun Tzu Bing Fa

Today, I shall attempt to write something on Sun Tzu Bing Fa or Sun Tzu’s Art of War:

(1) 孫子曰:兵者,國之大事,死生之地,存亡之道,不可不察也。(sūn zi yuē: bīnɡ zhě, ɡuó zhī dà shì. sǐ shēnɡ zhī dì , cún wánɡ zhī dào, bù kě bù chá yě.) [Chapter 1]

(Sun Tzu says: Warfare is a great matter to a nation; it is the ground of death and of life; it is the way of survival and of destruction, and must be examined.)