Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 323 Seiten)
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1 Porträt
ISBN:
9789004416215
Series Statement:
Jesuit studies volume 26
Content:
Translating the Sunzi -- Joseph Amiot's Sunzi -- The thirteen chapters on military art, a work composed in Chinese / by Sunzi -- Interpreting Amiot's Sunzi -- Postscript: Strategy and revolution -- Appendix 1: Joseph Amiot's letter to Henri Berlin, Beijing, September 23, 1766 -- Appendix 2: Amiot's life.
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Text in English, with some text in Chinese
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004414495
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Parr, Adam, 1965 - The mandate of heaven Leiden : Brill, 2020 ISBN 9789004414495
Language:
English
Keywords:
Amiot, Joseph Marie 1718-1793
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Sun, Wu Sunzi bing fa
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China
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Mission
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Jesuiten
DOI:
10.1163/9789004416215
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004416215
URL:
https://brill.com/content/books/10.1163/9789004416215
Author information:
Sun, Wu
Author information:
Amiot, Joseph Marie 1718-1793
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