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    Sun Tzu Said

    Critical text

    ®]

    ¤l

    ¤ê

    sun

    zi

    yue

    Sunzi

     

    said

    Yinqueshan text

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    Shiyijia zhu text

    ®]¤l¤ê

    Translation

      Sunzi said

    Annotations

      Since all thirteen chapters in the received text begin with these three words, the man named "Sunzi" could not have written them. Instead, as with most Warring States texts, we are dealing with the record of disciples.

      The bamboo strips for the opening words of all thirteen chapters have not survived. Of those strips that still exist, chapters 5 and 6 begin abruptly, without this introductory "Sunzi yue."

 

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