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The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu
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Cool, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- 孙武 (Sun Tzu)
- First published
- 1910
- Pages
- 90
- Publisher
- Delta, Buk, Li ming wen hua shi ye gong si
- Editions
- 1542
- Language
- vie, Spanish, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9781406500530
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“Sun Tzu said: War is a question of vital importance to the state, a matter of life and death, the road to survival or ruin.”
孙武（前545年—前470年或前496年）妫姓，孙氏，名武，字长卿，春秋时期齐国人，陈胡公的直系后代，著名军事家、政治家，兵家代表人物。兵书《孙子兵法》的作者，后人尊称为孙子、兵圣、东方兵圣。
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