{"product_id":"2940015740134","title":"Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR","description":"When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF\u003cbr\u003eWAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe.  Its introduction\u003cbr\u003eto Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in\u003cbr\u003eChina, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it\u003cbr\u003einto French.  It was not a good translation because, according to\u003cbr\u003eDr. Giles, \"[I]t contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not\u003cbr\u003ewrite, and very little indeed of what he did.\"\u003cbr\u003e     The first translation into English was published in 1905 in\u003cbr\u003eTokyo by Capt. E. F. Calthrop, R.F.A.  However, this translation\u003cbr\u003eis, in the words of Dr. Giles, \"excessively bad.\"  He goes\u003cbr\u003efurther in this criticism:  \"It is not merely a question of\u003cbr\u003edownright blunders, from which none can hope to be wholly exempt.\u003cbr\u003eOmissions were frequent; hard passages were willfully distorted\u003cbr\u003eor slurred over.  Such offenses are less pardonable.","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179085480176,"sku":"2940015740134","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015740134_p0.jpg?v=1763624106","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015740134","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}