Customer Review: Imperial Chinese Military History is a book that attempts to describe the history of China from the very first beginning all the way up to 1912 in chronological order. The format is encyclopedic which describes events that happened virtually year by year.
It also injects in crucial events... more info
Customer Review: Xu has written a very valuable book for students of the air war in Asia in the 1930s. I wish I'd had a copy in front of me when I was writing Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942. Not only is Xu a native reader of Mandarin and Cantonese, but he spent years... more info
Customer Review: This is a quoation book. Sawyer divides the book into chapters devoted to specific aspects of warfare. Each chapter seems to attempt to distill esential wisdom regarding the nature of the aspects of war by compiling relevant quotations from the original Chinese texts. This makes the book a good... more info
Customer Review: The chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War which seems the most deep is the chapter on Shih-the potentiality of things like water, armies, etc. to go from calm to forceful based on the comamnder's actions. This book applies these principles of Shih to historical and contemporary chinese forign policy and... more info
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