ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Art of War for Small Business relies on Lionel Giles’s translation as its primary source. I am also deeply indebted to Thomas Huynh for his translated and annotated The Art of War: Spirituality for Conflict, published by SkyLight Paths Publishing, and for generously allowing me to use many passages from his work here. Thomas has been a source of encouragement and understanding of Sun Tzu, and his perspective brings a more nuanced view of the philosopher-general. I’ve made some reference to the popular translation by Samuel B. Griffith of Oxford University, as well as the version presented to Steven Michaelson in Beijing at a symposium of the Research Society of Sun Tzu’s Art of War. I also relied on J. H. Huang’s Sun-Tzu: ...

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