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Sun Zi Introduction Table of content – The Art of War

Chinese strategy explained : know yourself and the ennemy, use deception, spies, and "win with ease". Tr. Giles (en, annotated) and Amiot (fr).

Introduction
I. Laying Plans
II. Waging War
III. Attack by Stratagem
IV. Tactical Dispositions		V. Energy
VI. Weak Points and Strong
VII. Maneuvering
VIII. Variation in Tactics
IX. The Army On The March		X. Terrain
XI. The Nine Situations
XII. The Attack By Fire
XIII. The Use of Spies

Maneuvering

Sunzi VII. 14.

In raiding and plundering be like fire,1 is immovability like a mountain.2

1. Cf. SHIH CHING, IV. 3. iv. 6: "Fierce as a blazing fire which no man can check."
2. That is, when holding a position from which the enemy is trying to dislodge you, or perhaps, as Tu Yu says, when he is trying to entice you into a trap.

Giles VII.18.

S'il faut être ferme dans votre poste, soyez-y immobile comme une montagne ; s'il faut sortir pour aller au pillage, ayez l'activité du feu.

Amiot

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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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诗 Shi Jing
The Book of Odes

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论 Lun Yu
The Analects

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大 Daxue
Great Learning

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中 Zhongyong
Doctrine of the Mean

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字 San Zi Jing
Three-characters book

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易 Yi Jing
The Book of Changes

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道 Dao De Jing
The Way and its Power

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唐 Tang Shi
300 Tang Poems

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兵 Sun Zi
The Art of War

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计 36 Ji
Thirty-Six Strategies

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