List of military writings from ancient China

Seven military classics

The collection of the so-called Seven Military Classics ( Chinese  武 經 七 書  /  武 经 七 书 , Pinyin Wǔjīng qīshū ) from the Song era consists of the following seven older works:

• Tai Gong's six secret teachings or six military strategies of Tai Gong (Tai Gong liutao 太公 六韜)
• The methods of Sima ( Sima fa司馬 法)
• Sunzi's Art of War ( Sunzi bingfa 孫子兵法)
• Wuzi ( Wuzi吳 子)
• Wei Liaozi ( Wei Liaozi尉繚子)
• The three strategies of Huang Shigong ( Huang Shigong sanlüe黃石公 三 略)
• Questions and answers between Tang Taizong and Li Weigong ( Tang Taizong Li Weigong wendui (唐太宗) 李衛公 問 對)

More fonts

• Sun Bin on the Art of War ( Sun Bin bingfa孙 膑 兵法)
• 36 stratagems , attributed to Tan Daoji

literature

• The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China . Sawyer, Ralph D. (transl.), Boulder 1993, ISBN 0-8133-1228-0 ( digitized version )
• Zhongguo junshi shi bianxie on 中国 军事 史 编写 组 ( Chinese Military History Editing Group ): Wujing qishu zhushi (The Seven Military Classics, Annotated ), Beijing: Jiefangjun chubanshe, 1986.
• Chen Rong et al. (Ed.): Zhongguo junshi shi cidian (Dictionary of Chinese Military History). Wuhan, 1993, ISBN 7-216-01115-5 .

See also

• Sun Bin
• Yinqueshan bamboo texts from the Han period (Yinqueshan Hanjian)

Web links

• Seven Military Classics (in Wade-Giles transcription)
• chinaknowledge.de: Military treatises
• Military history of China