The following are the oldest Chinese treatises on war, after Sun Tzfi. The notes on each have been drawn principally from the [E] Ii é % 159} E Ssa‘z k‘u c/z‘z'icm s/m ckz'm Ming mu 1%, ch. 9, fol. 22 39g.

I. 3’3 ¥ Wu Tzfi, in I ckz'icm or 6 % chapters. By 5% it: Wu Ch‘i (6!. BC. 381). A genuine work. See Ski/z CM, ch. 65.

2. fl ,% 55E SSfi-ma Fa, in I c/zz'icm or 5 chapters. Wrongly attributed to E] ,% H Ssu-ma jang-chii of the 6th century BC. Its date, however, must be early, as the customs of the three ancient dynasties are con- stantly to be met with in its pages. 1 See S/zz’k 6712', ch. 64.

The Sm K‘u C/z‘z'icm S/m (ch. 99, f. I) remarks that the oldest three treatises on war, 52m T227, Wu T232 and the Sui—ma Fa, are, generally speaking, only concerned with things strictly military — the art of producing, col- lecting, training and drilling troops, and the correct theory with regard to measures of expediency, laying plans, trans— port of goods and the handling of soldiers2 — in strong contrast to later works, in which the science of war is usually blended with metaphysics, divination and magical arts in general.

3. 7'; fig Liu T‘ao, in 6 c/zz'icm or 60 chapters. At— tributed to a 3:? Ln Wang (or Lii fi'fl‘ Shang, also

known as j; (2} T‘ai Kung) of the 1 2th century BC.3 But