School
Sun Bin
Overview
Sun Bin (traditional Chinese: 孫臏; simplified Chinese: 孙膑; pinyin: Sūnbìn; Cantonese Yale: syun1ban3; 382 – 316 BC) was a Chinese general, military strategist, and writer who lived during the Warring States period of Chinese history. A supposed descendant of Sun Tzu, Sun was tutored in military strategy by the hermit Guiguzi. He was accused of treason by Pang Juan while serving Wei and punished by being branded and crippled. Sun escaped and became a strategist and commander for Qi, defeating Wei at the Battle of Guiling and the Battle of Maling; Pang was killed at Maling. Sun's Art of War with the Yinqueshan Han Slips were discovered in 1972 after going missing for at least 1400 years.
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Possible passages
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Now, clearly, in advancing from the early state in which ancestors become identified with the objects they are nicknamed after, to the state in which there are proper names that have lost their metaphorical meanings, there must be passed through a state in which proper names, partially settled only, may or may not be preserved, and in which the new nicknames are still liable to be mistaken for actual names. Under…
Herbert Spencer, Essays
Close in meaning to Sun Bin; the term itself is not named.
He prepared an Invincible Armada, or rather two successive armadas, to conquer Japan, but they were defeated, partly by storms, and partly by Japanese valour. After Kublai, the Mongol Emperors more and more adopted Chinese ways, and lost their tyrannical vigour. Their dynasty came to an end in 1370, and was succeeded by the pure Chinese Ming dynasty, which lasted until the Manchu conquest of 1644. The Manchus in…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
Close in meaning to Sun Bin; the term itself is not named.
If, he insists, it had not been for the secession of the south in 1917, Japan would now be in virtually complete control of all China. A unified China would have meant a China ready to be swallowed whole by Japan. The secession localized Japanese aggressions, made it evident that the south would fight rather than be devoured, and gave a breathing spell in which public opinion in the north rallied against the…
John Dewey, China, Japan and the U.S.A.
Close in meaning to Sun Bin; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Shandong
- Warring States period
- Qi (state)
- Han dynasty
- Sun Tzu
- History of China
- The Art of War
- Guiguzi
- Sun Bin's Art of War
Place in the tradition
Part of Hundred Schools of Thought.