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[[File:Sun Tzu portrait.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|"Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack" - Sun Tzu ]]
 
'''Sun Tzu''' (commonly: "Sun Tzu", 孙子, simplified characters; in modern Chinese, the same characters also mean "grandson" with a toneless second syllable) (c. 400 B.C.) was the author of ''The Art of War'', a classic [[Chinese]] treatise on [[military]] strategy.  He lived during the [[Warring States]] period, a time when his skills in warfare were much in demand.  His original name was 孙武, Sun Wu, and the name 孙子 is an honorific.  孙武's grandson, Sun Bin, 孙膑,also wrote a text of military strategy; in Chinese, Sun Bin's book is 孙膑兵法,and Sun Wu's is most commonly known simply as 孙子兵法,although both were known as 孙子 after their deaths, thus making it confusing for military historians and sinologists to differentiate between the two.  The second 孙子's text was uncovered only recently, in the 1970s, in a [[Han dynasty]] tomb, in Yinqueshan, Shandong province.
 
'''Sun Tzu''' (commonly: "Sun Tzu", 孙子, simplified characters; in modern Chinese, the same characters also mean "grandson" with a toneless second syllable) (c. 400 B.C.) was the author of ''The Art of War'', a classic [[Chinese]] treatise on [[military]] strategy.  He lived during the [[Warring States]] period, a time when his skills in warfare were much in demand.  His original name was 孙武, Sun Wu, and the name 孙子 is an honorific.  孙武's grandson, Sun Bin, 孙膑,also wrote a text of military strategy; in Chinese, Sun Bin's book is 孙膑兵法,and Sun Wu's is most commonly known simply as 孙子兵法,although both were known as 孙子 after their deaths, thus making it confusing for military historians and sinologists to differentiate between the two.  The second 孙子's text was uncovered only recently, in the 1970s, in a [[Han dynasty]] tomb, in Yinqueshan, Shandong province.
  
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