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Author Parr, Adam, 1965- author.

Title The mandate of heaven strategy, revolution, and the first European translation of Sunzi's Art of war (1772) Adam Parr
Published Leiden Boston Brill [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xii. 323 pages)
Series Jesuit studies - modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 volume 26
Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 26.
Contents Translating the Sunzi -- Joseph Amiot's Sunzi -- The thirteen chapters on military art, a work composed in Chinese / by Sunzi -- Interpreting Amiot's Sunzi -- Strategy and revolution -- Joseph Amiot's letter to Henri Berlin, Beijing, September 23, 1766 -- Amiot's life
Summary "The Mandate of Heaven examines the first European version of Sunzi's Art of War, which was translated from Chinese by Joseph Amiot, a French missionary in Beijing, and published in Paris in 1772. His work is presented in English for the first time. Amiot undertook this project following the suppression of the Society of Jesus in France with the aim of demonstrating the value of the China mission to the French government. He addressed his work to Henri Bertin, minister of state, beginning a thirty-year correspondence between the two men. Amiot framed his translation in order to promote a radical agenda using the Chinese doctrine of the "mandate of heaven." This was picked up within the sinophile and radical circle of the physiocrats, who promoted China as a model for revolution in Europe. The work also arrived just as the concept of strategy was emerging in France. Thus Amiot's Sunzi can be placed among seminal developments in European political and strategic thought on the eve of the revolutionary era"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English, with some text in Chinese. English text translated from French version of text originally in Chinese
Print version record
Subject Sunzi, active 6th century B.C. Sunzi bing fa -- Criticism and interpretation
Sunzi, active 6th century B.C. Sunzi bing fa -- Influence
Amiot, Joseph Marie, 1718-1793. Art militaire des Chinois
Amiot, Joseph Marie, 1718-1793.
SUBJECT Amiot, Joseph Marie, 1718-1793 fast
Subject Jesuits -- China
SUBJECT Jesuits fast
Sunzi bing fa (Sunzi) fast
Subject Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
China
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Amiot, Joseph Marie, 1718-1793, translator.
Sunzi, active 6th century B.C. Sunzi bing fa. English.
LC no. 2019037127
ISBN 9004416218
9789004416215
Other Titles Strategy, revolution, and the first European translation of Sunzi's Art of war (1772)