Therefore, one hundred victories
Critical Text
琌 |
珿 |
κ |
驹 |
κ |
秤 |
shi |
gu |
bai |
zhan |
bai |
sheng |
this |
reason |
100 |
battle |
100 |
victory |
獶 |
到 |
ぇ |
到 |
|
|
fei |
shan |
zhi |
shan |
zhe |
ye |
not |
skill |
's |
skill |
-ness |
(period) |
ぃ |
驹 |
τ |
﹠ |
|
ぇ |
bu |
zhan |
er |
qu |
ren |
zhi |
not |
battle |
and |
subdue |
people |
's |
|
到 |
ぇ |
到 |
|
|
bing |
shan |
zhi |
shan |
zhe |
ye |
military |
skill |
's |
skill |
-ness |
(period) |
Yinqueshan Text
Shiyijia zhu Text
琌珿κ驹κ秤獶到ぇ到ぃ驹τ﹠ぇ到ぇ到
Translation
Therefore, one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
Annotations
Despite his announced respect for the Sunzi, Mao Zedong often advocated "One hundred victories in one hundred battles," holding to a level of conceptualization the Sunzi seeks here to sublate.
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