Description: For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War.
Brief description: Michael Nylan is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes?The Art of War?and China's Early Empires with Michael Loewe, ?Yang?Xiong?and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China, The Five "Confucian" Classics, ?Lives of Confucius with Thomas A. Wilson, and several essays on feminism and Confucianism.
Review Quotes: Each sentence is a struck match...[Nylan's] translation is insightful and alert.--Dwight Garner "New York Times"