The Art of War: Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) Paperback – March 14, 2017

Excellent explanations and side-by-side translation of the original Chinese text. We use it for our own language development.

This book is really WORTH the PRICE! I was highly disappointed after buying Sun Tzu Art of War by Ralph D. Sawyer. I immediately searched out this book by the translator's name. It is a brilliant copy of the Sun Tzu Art of War! This translation is easy to read and gives clarity of Sun Tzu Art of War with references to other Commentators and great leaders who referred to the work.This book is so brilliantly done until the average lay person can read and fully understand it!

An excellent dual-language presentation, this text of "The Art of War" provides alternating-language content in a natural page flow as opposed to side by side. This allows the reader to keep her place more easily when jumping back and forth between languages.

Although this book is 250 pages, the actual text (traditional Chinese interspersed with English translation) is only about 60 pages and can be read in 1-2 sittings. I enjoyed the front matter, which provides historical context for the book, such as who really wrote it, and what was the political situation in China at the time. It also talks about various Chinese commentators through the millennia and attempts at translations by Europeans, which was quite interesting.One thing I found lacking about this edition was that the last 100 pages or so were "translator's notes" for each line of the text. Essentially this is commenting on the translation itself: since classical Chinese is so dense, most passages have ambiguous meaning, and this is how the translator justifies his interpretation instead of another one. Unless you're really interested in studying the original language in detail, this part will probably not be useful. I would have preferred an analysis on the meaning of the 13 chapters instead.

Happy about the book itself but the back cover came all bent. Not a huge deal but disappointing it came that way.

This book is exactly what I want, bilingual text. However, I found the

It rocks

Great version of a great "must have and must read" book!!!!