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孙子兵法 Sun Zi Bing Fa（or Thirty-Six Stratagems）

The book is China's earliest and most outstanding and complete work on warcraft. Dubbed "the Bible of Military Science", it is also the earliest work on military strategies in the world.

It, literally Sun Tzu's The Art of War and the Thirty-Six Stratagems, also known as Sun Wu's Military Science" or Art of War by Master Sun of Wu, Master Sun's The Art of War (孙子兵法), was written by Su Wu of the State of Qi duringthe later years of the Spring and Autumn Period. Set in the Warring States Period of ancient China, the series tells the story of Sun Bin (a descendant of the militarist Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War) and his rival Pang Juan.

The content of The Art of War is extensive and profound, touching upon a wide range of subjects like war rules, philosophy, strategies, politics, economy, diplomacy, astronomy and geology etc. The book is composed of 13 chapters, with the first one "laying plans" being the principal line, which illustrates the comparison between all conditions of the two parties in the war before dispatching troops, the evaluation of the chances of success or defeat as well as the formulation of the operation plan. The rest chapters mainly deal with war mobilization, how to lay siege to a city with tactics, analyzing the two factors contributing to the outcome of the war as well as how to outstrip the enemy in terms of troops in the planned battlefield that will end up in a success due to outnumbering the enemy troops and how to achieve the success through strategies like separation, aggregation, encirclement and outflanking etc. The use of words in the book is brief and concise, with logically precise illustration and philosophical implications.

The strategies and philosophical thoughts stated in The Art of War have been widely used in all fields such as military affairs, politics and economy etc.

List of episodes. Each episode is named after one of the Thirty-Six Stratagems.