title: Sun-Tzu: Art of War-The New Translation
author:  Sun-Tzu 
description: There is no doubt that J. H. Huangs new translation of Sun Tzu will be valuable to anyone who is a student of <i>The Art of War.</i> It will be used by scholars for years to come. (General Norman Schwarzkopf)
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  When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was
  virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a
  French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and
  translated it into French. It was not a good translation because, according to
  Dr. Giles, "[I]t contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not write, and very
  little indeed of what he did." The first translation into English was
  published in 1905 in Tokyo by Capt. E. F. Calthrop, R.F.A. However, this
  translation is, in the words of Dr. Giles, "excessively bad." He goes further
  in this criticism: "It is not merely a question of downright blunders, from
  which none can hope to be wholly exempt. Omissions were frequent; hard
  passages were willfully distorted or slurred over. Such offenses are less
  pardonable. They would not be tolerated in any edition of a Latin or Greek
  classic, and a similar standard of honesty ought to be insisted upon in
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