Chinese strategy explained : know yourself and the ennemy, use deception, spies, and "win with ease". Tr. Giles (en, annotated) and Amiot (fr).
Terrain
Only about a third of the chapter, comprising ss. ss. 1-13, deals with "terrain," the subject being more fully treated in ch. XI. The "six calamities" are discussed in SS. 14-20, and the rest of the chapter is again a mere string of desultory remarks, though not less interesting, perhaps, on that account.
Sun Tzu said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: 1) Accessible ground;1 2) entangling ground;2 3) temporizing ground;3 4) narrow passes; 5) precipitous heights; 6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.4
Giles X.1.
Sun Tzu dit : Sur la surface de la terre tous les lieux ne sont pas équivalents. Il y en a que vous devez fuir, et d'autres qui doivent être l'objet de vos recherches ; tous doivent vous être parfaitement connus.
Amiot
The Art of War – Sun Zi X. 1. – Chinese on/off – Français/English
Alias Sun Tzu, Sun Wu, Sun Tse, Sunzi Bingfa, Souen Tseu, Souen Wou, 孫武.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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