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commented on the seven military classics, stating, "I have read all of the seven books, among them there are some materials that are not necessarily right and there are superstitious stuff can be used by bad people."
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Chinese military works like Su Shu, San Liu, Liu Tao and Art of War were translated into Manchu. Manchus used Manchu translations of the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms to learn military strategy.
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Translation (by A. Wylie) of the Ts'ing wan k'e mung, a Chinese grammar of the Manchu Tartar language (by Woo Kĭh Show-ping, revised and ed. by Ching Ming-yuen Pei-ho) with intr. notes on Manchu literature
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Translation (by A. Wylie) of the Ts'ing wan k'e mung, a Chinese grammar of the Manchu Tartar language (by Woo Kĭh Show-ping, revised and ed. by Ching Ming-yuen Pei-ho) with intr. notes on Manchu literature
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There are no other known variations of the Seven Military Classics anthology with alternating members but the constituent works themselves have had many multiple versions, especially
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According to Ralph D. Sawyer and Mei-chün Sawyer, who created one of the latest translations, the Seven Military Classics include the following texts:
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with different notations and analyses by scholars throughout the centuries leading up to the present versions in Western publishing. The
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DURRANT, STEPHEN. “MANCHU TRANSLATIONS OF CHOU DYNASTY TEXTS.” Early China, vol. 3, 1977, pp. 52–54. JSTOR,
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The Art of War was studied by warrining Japanese clans during internal civil wars such as the
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Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year 1889-90
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Gawlikowski, Kzysztof and Michael Loewe. (1993). "Sun tzu ping fa", in
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under this name during the 11th century AD, and from the time of the
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Questions and Replies between Tang Taizong and Li Weigong
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Questions and Replies between Tang Taizong and Li Weigong
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as well as many European and American military minds.
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Index

Chinese military texts
Seven Military Classics
The Art of War
Wuzi
The Methods of the Sima
Six Secret Teachings
Wei Liaozi
Three Strategies of Huang Shigong
Questions and Replies
Sun Bin's Art of War
Thirty-Six Stratagems
Wujing Zongyao
Huolongjing
Jixiao Xinshu
Wubei Zhi
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traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
China
Sun-tzu
The Art of War
canonized
Song dynasty
leishu
bureaucrats
Confucius

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