The Science of War Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” re-translated and re-considered

For more than two thousand years, strategists in China have followed a single system of military teachings. In The Science of War, Christopher MacDonald tells how those principles and teachings first crystallized into the Sun Tzu treatise and how they guide China’s military and political leaders to this day. Supported by a masterly new translation of Sun Tzu’s classic, MacDonald analyses what the application of that ancient system of thought bodes for military strategy in the region.

Christopher MacDonald is a translator and interpreter based in Cardiff. He spent a year in Xian, in 1985, and has since lived and worked in Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai, as a translator, interpreter, and trade and investment consultant. From 1997 to 1999, he was the interpreter for the British side in the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group. He holds an M.A. in translation and interpretation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California, and is studying for an M.Sc. in sustainability and adaptation at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales. The Science of War is his first book.