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Apologies for War Bibliography The following are the oldest Chinese treatises on war, after Sun Tzu. The notes on each have been drawn principally from the SSU K`U CH`UAN SHU CHIEN MING MU LU,…

Ch'ing

(Encyclopedia) Ch'ingCh'ingchĭng [key] or ManchuCh'ingmănˌch&oomacr;ˈ, mănˈch&oomacr;ˌ [key], the last of the Imperial dynasties of China. Following foreign suppression of the Boxer…

Beijing

(Encyclopedia) Beijing Beijing bā-jĭng [key] or Peking Peking…

The Upanishads, translated by Max Müller: Preface

I MUST begin this series of translations of the Sacred Books of the East with three cautions: the first, referring to the character of the original texts here translated; the second, with regard to…

The Iliad of Homer: Introduction

Summary Pope's Preface to the Iliad of Homer Introduction. Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is…

history

(Encyclopedia) history, in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed…

China

(Encyclopedia) CE5 CE5 China, Mandarin Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo [central glorious people's united country; i.e., people's republic],…