The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods

Victor Mair is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Harvard University. He is professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and is the founder and editor of Sino-Platonic Papers, an academic journal that examines diverse aspects of Chinese language, script, and culture, paying particular attention to historical relationships with other societies in Eurasia. For the past two decades, he has led a major international investigation of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age peoples of Eastern Central Asia, a project that has resulted in numerous publications and several films. His Columbia books include The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature and The Columbia History of Chinese Literature.Victor H. Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds degrees from the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), Harvard University and Dartmouth College. Among his many publications are Popular Narratives from Tun-huang (Cambridge University Press, 1983), Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis (University of Hawaii Press, 1988), and T'ang Transformation Texts: A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in China (Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1988). Mair's translation, Tao Te Ching: The Chinese Book of Integrity and the Way, was published by Bantam in 1990. In 1994 we published his The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature, and in 2002 we published his edited volume, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature.