Jean Joseph Marie Amiot
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Jean Joseph Marie Amiot was a French Jesuit priest who worked in Qing China, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
Painting of Amiot, anon.
A page from Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences et les arts des Chinois, 1780.
Sun Tzu
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Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a Classical Chi
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot
…scores for the knowledge of Chinese music in Europe in the XVIII century. He translated Chinese works into French. Most notably, his translation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War is the first rendition of the work into a Western language. Amiot was born in Toulon on February 8, 1718 to Louis Amiot, the royal…
Qing-era representation of Sun Tzu
The Yinqueshan Han Slips unearthed in 1972 include Sun Tzu's Art of War, collection of Shandong Museum
A copy of The Art of War written on bamboo
Statue of Sun Tzu in Yurihama, Tottori, in Japan