MMW 11 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tao Te Ching, Zhou Dynasty, Zhuang Zhou

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

Sourcebook i: chinese theories of life & war. Master sun: the art of war (written 600 bc) Sun wu was native of the feudal state of qi during spring & autumn period. Famed for being a brilliant military tactician: given suffix -zi, (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:373)aste(cid:396)(cid:863) Believed to be author of the art of war: some think it was written for king helu of wu. Wu stretches along coast north of shanghai: helu reads the art of war appoints sun wu to run wars wu expands southwest into chu. Chu (land along yangtze river basin) expand into coast assimilate everything including wu. Wa(cid:396)fa(cid:396)e (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged (cid:271)(cid:455) maste(cid:396) u(cid:374)"s ti(cid:373)e more people with more lethal weapons were going to war: master sun says: Military decisions be made solely by general. One should be concerned about how to retain loyalty of forcefully recruited soldiers. Secrecy in war is of the utmost importance spies should be paid a lot of money.