Three years of scrounging on Ali Express #classicalchinese #aliexpressfinds #shelfie
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@0xabad1dea very interesting! I never read Sun Tzu, but my illiterate understanding was always that this was a collection of wisdom of scholars for scholars.
@DJGummikuh @0xabad1dea Clausewitz's On War is more like that (although even that isn't exactly deep!)
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The difference between my English and Chinese copies of The Art of War never stops being funny.
@0xabad1dea ......well I was today years old when I realized that "Sun-tzu" on English covers is Sūnzǐ as in 孙子.
I think that cover makes even more sense given that the author can be literally translated as "grandson."
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@0xabad1dea ......well I was today years old when I realized that "Sun-tzu" on English covers is Sūnzǐ as in 孙子.
I think that cover makes even more sense given that the author can be literally translated as "grandson."
@cliffle English transcriptions of historical Chinese names are often frozen the way that someone from a southern port city would have pronounced it in the 1800s
