{"product_id":"the-mandate-of-heaven-strategy-revolution-and-the-first-european-translation-of-sunzi-s-art-of-war-1772-9789004414495","title":"The Mandate of Heaven: Strategy, Revolution, and the First European Translation of Sunzi’s Art of War (1772)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mandate of Heaven examines the first European version of Sunzi’s Art of War, which was translated from Chinese by Joseph Amiot, a French missionary in Beijing, and published in Paris in 1772. His work is presented in English for the first time. Amiot undertook this project following the suppression of the Society of Jesus in France with the aim of demonstrating the value of the China mission to the French government. He addressed his work to Henri Bertin, minister of state, beginning a thirty-year correspondence between the two men. Amiot framed his translation in order to promote a radical agenda using the Chinese doctrine of the “mandate of heaven.” This was picked up within the sinophile and radical circle of the physiocrats, who promoted China as a model for revolution in Europe. The work also arrived just as the concept of strategy was emerging in France. Thus Amiot’s Sunzi can be placed among seminal developments in European political and strategic thought on the eve of the revolutionary era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Mandate of Heaven is a welcome addition to studies on French Jesuits and their impact on the Enlightenment. Parr and the other contributors to the volume are to be applauded for their contributions to understanding eighteenth-century Jesuit missionary culture and the global connections that facilitated and inspired the Enlightenment.” - Daniel J. Watkins, Baylor University, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 687-689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments   Contributors   Introduction   1The Context of the Translation   1.1The Military Enlightenment   1.2War and Peace   1.3The Suppression of the Jesuits   1.4The China mission   1.5The Standing of China at the Outbreak of the Seven Years’ War   1.6The Physiocrats   1.7The Correspondance littéraire   1Translating theSunzi   1The Texts   2Sources   3Approaching Translation   4Language Barriers   2Joseph Amiot’sSunzi   1Notes on the English Translation   2Preface by the Publisher, Joseph de Guignes   3Translator’s Preface   4The Emperor’s Preface to the Ten Precepts Addressed to Men at Arms   3The Thirteen Chapters on Military Art, a Work Composed in Chinese by Sunzi   Preface   1The Fundamentals of Military Art   2On the Beginning of the Campaign   3On What One Needs to have Thought of Before a Battle   4On the Positioning of Troops   5On Skill in the Leading of Troops   6On Fullness and Emptiness   7On the Advantages to Be Secured   8On the Nine Changes   9On the Conduct of Troops   10On Knowledge of the Landscape   11On the Nine Types of Terrain   12Guide to How to Fight with Fire   13On How to Make Use of Dissension and Sow Discord   4Interpreting Amiot’sSunzi   1Utility   2Science, Art, and Perspective   3Grande science and Grand Art   4La Doctrine: The Way   5Benevolence   6A Second Reading   5Postscript: Strategy and Revolution   1Responses to the Art Militaire   2Henri Bertin’s Correspondance Militaire   3Strategy   Appendix 1: Joseph Amiot’s Letter to Henri Bertin, Beijing, September 23, 1766   Appendix 2: Amiot’s Life   Family Background   Education   A Jesuit in the Kingdom of France   Journey to and Arrival in Beijing   The French Mission   Early Years (1751–64)   The Appeal of Chinese Music   Amiot’s Scientific Research   Amiot’s Contact with European Academies   Amiot’s Major Period of Writing   The Abolition of the Society of Jesus   Writer, Translator, and Correspondent   Further Research into Chinese Music   Later Years   Final Works: Chinese Dances and Scientific Research   A Major Shock: The Impact of the Revolutionary Upheaval in France   Amiot the Missionary   His Network of Contacts   Other Works   Ethno-linguistics   History   Science   Art   Portraits of Amiot   Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210786758999,"sku":"9789004414495","price":137.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mandate-of-heaven-strategy-revolution-and-the-first-european-translation-of-sunzi-s-art-of-war-1772-9789004414495","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}