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Author:   Adam Parr
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   26
Weight:   0.649kg
ISBN:  

9789004414495

ISBN 10:   9004414495
Pages:   323
Publication Date:   17 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

 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

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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.

“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

Author Information

Adam Parr is a professor at the University of Western Australia. He read English at the University of Cambridge and received his PhD at University College London. His doctoral thesis was on the translation of classical military theory following the Seven Years’ War (1756–63).

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