THE ART OF WAR and THE BOOK OF LORD SHANG

The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. They are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation: they are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China. 'The Art of War' analyses the nature of war and reveals how victory may be ensured. 'The Book of Lord Shang' is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. With a new introduction by Robert Wilkinson to both texts and bound in a Wordsworth Classics of World Literature paperback. 256pp.