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Abstract ideas of degree, 50.
Accessible ground, 100, 100, 119.
Accommodating oneself to the enemy, 145, 148.
Adaptation to circumstances, 23.
Aides de-camp, 171.
"Aids to Scouting," quoted, 88, 89, 107, 164.
Allotments of land, 62.
Alps, crossings of the. 57.
Anger, succeeded by gladness, 159.
Army, divisions of the, 17, 33.
Army on the march, 140.
Arsenals, burning of, 151.
"Art of War," quoted by Han Hsin, 144.
Art of war in a nutshell, 44.
Athletics, 124.
Attack, skill in, 28.
Autumn hair, 29.
Baden-Powell, General. See "Aids to Scouting."
Baggage, 58.
Baggage-train, 60.
Baggage-trains, burning of, 151.
Bait, offered by the enemy, 68.
Balancing of chances, 31.
Banners. See Flags and banners.
Bases of supply, 60.
Beasts, startled, sign of surprise attack, 89.
Belgians at Waterloo, 130. Benevolence to spies, 170.
Biot's Chou Li, ix.
Birds rising, sign of ambuscade, 89.
Blücher, 48.
Bluster, 95.
Boers, 18.
"Book of Army Management,'' 63.
Buff-coats, 58.
Burning one's boats, 133.
Calamities, six, 105.
Calthrop, Capt.: his edition of Sun Tzŭ's text, xxxii; his translation of Sun Tzŭ, viii; quoted, passim.
Camp, shifting, 133.
Camping, 80 sqq.
Cannae, battle of, 11.
Casinum, 140.
"Catalogue of Chinese Books," xxxiv.
Chan Kuo Ts‘ê, quoted, to; referred to, xxiv.
Chan Tou Ta Chia Ping Fa, xviii.
Chang Ao, a commentator, xlii.
Chang Hsiu, 69.
Chang Ni, 144.
Chang Shang-ying, lii.
Chang Tsai, li.
Chang Tzŭ-shang, a commentator, xli.
Chang Yü's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xl; quoted, 5, 8, 9, II, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 39, 42, 44, 46, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 58, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 94, 97, 99, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 112 119, 124, 125, 126, 127, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 139, 141, 142, 143, 145, 152, 155, 156, 158, 159, 161, 163, 167, 170, 171, 172; referred to, 6, 15, 17, 31, 36, 45, 71, 86, 95, 96, 106, 147, 153, 173.
Ch‘ang mountains, 128.
Ch‘ang-cho, battle of, 66.
Ch‘ang-shê, siege of, 154.
Chao State, army of, 28, 143; defeated by Chin, 166; King of, 57.
Chao Chan, 106.
Chao Shê, famous march of, 57, 136; his use of spies, 166.
Chao Yeh, xiv.
Chao Ying-ch‘i, 78.
Chao Yüan-hao's rebellion, xli.
Ch‘ao Kung-wu, quoted, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii. xl, xli.
Chariot wheels, burying of, 129.
Chavannes, M.: his "Mémoires Historiques" referred to, xiii, xvi, xlvi, 57.
Ch‘en Chên-sun, quoted, xxiii.
Ch‘ên Hao's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xxxvi, xxxviii; quoted, 30, 44, 56, 62, 65, 69, 73, 81, 93, 97, 106, 108, 110, 117, 118, 122, 124, 133, 136, 141, 147, 152, 170, 175; referred to, 18, 68.
Ch‘ên-ts‘ang, siege of, 94.
Chêng, principality of, 104, 116.
Chêng and ch‘i. See Tactics, direct and indirect.
Chêng Ch‘iao, xl.
Chêng Hou, quoted, xliii.
Chêng Hsüan's commentary on the Chou Li, xviii.
Chêng Tuan, xlii.
Chêng Yu-hsien's I Shuo, xxxii, xxxiv; referred to, 36, 53, 58, 70, 136.
Chêng-an, city of, captured by Han Hsin, 28.
Ch‘êng-hung, battle of, 78.
Chi Hsieh, editor of commentaries on Sun Tzŭ, xxxviii, xli.
Chi-mo, siege of,. 90.
Chi T‘ien-pao's edition of Sun Tzŭ, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxvi, xxxvii.
Ch‘i State, xii, xvi, 128.
Ch‘i Chieh, 90.
Chia Hsü, a commentator, xli.
Chia-ku, meeting at, xlvii.
Chia Lin's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xxxvi, xxxviii; quoted, 20, 30, 34, 46, 50, 57, 72, 75, 76, 86, 92, 94, 95, 97, 117, 120, 133, 143, 148, 152, 157, 175; referred to, 51, 55. 62, 65, 96, 108, 164.
Chia Yü, referred to, xlvii.
Chiang-ling, town of, 111.
Chiang Yüan, a spurious work, lii.
Chieh Kuei, the tyrant, 173.
Chieh-li, a Turkish Khan, 167.
Ch‘ien Ch‘io Lei Shu, liii.
Ch‘ien Fu Lun, referred to, xxiv.
Ch‘ien Han Shu, quoted 81, 145, 167; referred to, li, 28, 34, 57, 69; bibliographical section of, quoted, xvii, xix, li; referred to, xviii, xx, liii.
Ch‘ih Yu, 84.
Chin Shu, quoted, 78, 116; referred to, 123, 165.
Ch‘in State, 142.
China's experience of war, xliv.
Chinese characters, elasticity of, 159.
Chinese sentiment opposed to militarism, xliv.
Ching, Duke of Ch‘i, xv.
Ching-chou Fu, 123.
Ching-hsing pass, battle of, 143.
Ching K‘o, 127.
Ching Wang, period of, xxiii.
Chiu T‘ang Shu, referred to, 104, 167; bibliographical section of, referred to, liii.
Chou Ch‘in Shih I Tzŭ, text of Sun Tzŭ in, xxxi.
Chou dynasty, 174.
Chou Hsin, the tyrant, l, 174.
Chou Li quoted, 14, 55, 60, 68, 92, 146; referred to, xxxix, xlviii, 64; Biot's translation of, ix.
Chu Chih-wu, xxi.
Chu Fu's edition of Sun Tzŭ, xvii, xxxi.
Chu Hsi, corrected by Legge, 32; quoted, xliii, xlvii.
Chu-ko Liang, 46, 51, 74, 82, 117, 122; supposititious works of, lii.
Chu-ko Wu-hou. See Chu-ko Liang.
Ch‘u State, xii, xiii, xvi, 124; the hereditary enemy of Wu, xxvii; Viscount of, 110.
Chuan Shê-chu. See Chuan Chu.
Chuang, Duke of Lu, 66.
Chuang, Prince of Ch‘u, 141, 162.
Chuang Tzŭ, referred to, 29, 85.
Chung Yung, xix.
Circumstances, art of studying, 68.
Classics, compared with Sun Tzŭ, xliii.
Clearness of orders, 107.
Clever fighter, the, 29, 41, 42.
Cohesion, 134.
Collapse, one of the six calamities, 105, 106.
Columns, marching in, 49.
Commander, the, 2, 3. See also General.
Commander-in-chief, killing the, 145; presence of mind of the, 66.
Commentary, native, on Sun Tzŭ, ix, xxxiv sqq.
Communications, line of, 101, 119.
Compactness, 61.
Confucius, and the art of war, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii, contemporary with Sun Tzŭ, xxx; violates extorted oath, xlix.
Constellations, 153.
Contentious ground, 115, 118, 136.
Contraction and expansion, 134.
Conventional canons of warfare, 148.
Co-operation, 129.
Council-chamber, sternness in the, 146.
Country, natural features of, 60.
Courage, one standard of, 130.
Courant's "Catalogue des Livres Chinois," lii.
Cowardice, 78.
Cromwell's use of spies, 164.
Cross-divisions, 100.
Cunning, 145.
Danger, bracing effect of, 139, 145.
Dangerously isolated ground, 72.
Deception, war based on, 6, 132.
Deductive calculation, 163.
Defence, skill in, 27.
Deliberation, 63.
Demosthenes, the Athenian general, 118.
Desperado, running amok, 125.
Desperate foe, not to be pressed, 69, 94.
Desperate ground, 72, 114, 1 17, 120, 125, 126, 135, 138, 143.
Deviation, artifice of, 57, 63.
Difficult ground, 71, 117, 120, 137.
Disaffection, signs of, 95.
Disorder, seeming, 38.
Dispersive ground, 114, 118, 135.
Disposition of troops, 26.
Dispositions, concealment of, 51, 52 knowledge of the enemy's, 163.
Dissimulation, 61.
Dividing the enemy, 47.
Divination, to be prohibited, 126.
"Divine manipulation of the threads," 164.
Door, left open by the enemy, 147.
Doorkeepers, 171.
Dust, sign of the enemy, 89.
Earth, as opposed to Heaven, 2, 4, 27, 28, 113; six principles connected with, 104.
Economy, false, 162.
Energy, 38, 39, 41; concentration of, 124.
Entangling ground, too, 102.
Enterprise, the spirit of, 157.
Enticing the enemy, 102.
Êrh-chu Chao, 138.
Êrh Ya, quoted, 94.
Excellence, supreme, 17; the acme of, 28.
Expenditure on war, 9, 10, 160.
Facile ground, 115, 118, 135, 136.
Fan Chü's use of spies, 166.
Fei River, battle of the, 25.
Fêng I, a student of Sun Tzŭ, xlii.
Fire, as an aid to the attack, 156; dropping, 151, 152; five ways of attacking with, 150; material for, 152; proper seasons for attacking with, 152, 153; to be started on the windward side, 155.
Five advantages, the, 72, 74, 75.
Five cardinal tastes, 36.
Five cardinal virtues, 3.
Five classes of State ceremonial, xlviii.
Five dangerous faults, 77.
Five developments in attacking with fire, 153 sqq.
Five elements, the, 53.
Five essentials for victory, 23, 24.
Five factors in war, r.
Five musical notes, 36.
Five primary colours, 36.
Flags and banners, 16, 34, 64, 65.
Flat country, campaigning in, 83, 84.
Flight, 105.
Foreknowledge, 163.
Forestalling the enemy, 147.
Forethought, want of, 97.
"Forty-one Years in India," referred to, 35.
Four seasons, the, 54.
Frederick the Great, quoted, 48, 168, 169.
Frontier passes, 146.
Frontal attacks, 45.
Fu Ch‘ai, xvi.
Fu-ch‘u, King of Ch‘u, 124.
Fu-k‘ang-an, 63.
General, the, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16, 19, 21, 44, 55, 66, 77, 98, 107, 109, 110, 130, 131, 134, 157, 159, 163, 171, 174.
Generals, professional, xxii.
Generalship, degrees of, 17, 18; the highest, 48.
Giles’ Biographical Dictionary, quoted, 128.
Giles’ Chinese-English Dictionary, referred to, 57, 134.
Grant, General, 47.
Great Wall of China, xliv.
Greeks, Homeric, 9.
Grindstone and egg, 35.
Ground, high and low, 84; of intersecting highways, 71, 116, 119, 135, 137; proper use of, 130.
Grounds, the nine, 114, 134, 138.
Han, red banners of, 144.
Han Chih. See Ch‘in Han Shu, bibliographical section of.
Han Kuan Chieh Ku, quoted, xx. Han Hsin, xliv, 28, 33, 34, 81, 143, 167; a student of Sun Tzŭ, xlii; quoted, 68.
Han Shu. See Ch‘ien Han Shu.
Hannibal, 11, 57, 66, 120, 140.
Hasty temper, 78.
Hearing, quick, 29.
Heights, precipitous, 100, 103.
Hemmed-in ground, 72, 117, 120, 135, 137.
Henderson, Col., quoted, 6, 42, 48, 52, 59, 101, 130, 131.
Herodotus, referred to, 129.
Ho Ch‘ü-fei, xl.
Ho Kuan Tzŭ, referred to, xxiv.
Ho Lu (or Ho Lü), King of Wu, xi, xiii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxvi, 5, 128.
Ho Shih. See Ho Yen-hsi.
Ho-yang, night ride to, 65.
Ho Yen-hsi's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xl; quoted, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 29, 30, 34, 56, 69, 74, 110, 115, 116, 122, 147, 165, 166, 167, 168, 174; referred to, xvii, 31, 43, 62, 152.
Horses, tethering of, 129.
Hou Han Shu, quoted, 10, 94, 132, 139, 151, 155; referred to, xlii.
Hsi, the graduate, xxxiii.
Hsia dynasty, 174.
Hsiang, Duke of Sung, xlix, 141. Hsiang Chi, xlix, 133.
Hsiang Liang, xlix.
Hsiang Yü. See Hsiang Chi.
Hsiao State, 110.
Hsiao Chi, a commentator, xli.
Hsiao Hsien, 123.
Hsiao Shih-hsien. See Hsiao I.
Hsieh An, 25.
Hsieh Yuan, a commentator, xlii.
Hsien Hu, 106.
Hsin-ch‘êng, town of, 122.
Hsin Hsü, xiv.
Hsin Shu (by Ts‘ao Kung), xix, xxxvi.
Hsin Shu (a work attributed to Chu-ko Liang), lii.
Hsin Tang Shu, referred to, 65, 104, 105, 123, 167; bibliographical section of, referred to, xviii, liii.
Hsing Li Hui Yao, quoted, xliii, xlviii.
Hsing Shih Pien Chêng Shu, xv.
Hsü Ch‘ieh, quoted, 160.
Hsü-chou, invaded by Ts‘ao Ts‘ao, 73.
Hsü Wên Hsien T‘ung K‘ao, liii.
Hsüan Tsung, T‘ang Emperor, xxxii.
Hsün Tzŭ, quoted, 80.
Hsün Ying, 73.
Hu Yen, xiii.
Hua-pi, city of, 73.
Hua-yin temple, xxxii.
Huai-nan Tzŭ, plagiary of Sun Tzŭ, xxiv; quoted, xiv.
Huan Ch‘ung, 25.
Huan Hsüan, 78.
Huang Ch‘ao Ching Shih Wên Pien, liii.
Huang Chih-chêng, a commentator, xlii.
Huang Jun-yü, a commentator, xli.
Huang Mei, 78.
Huang-shih Kung, li; quoted, 109, 126.
Huang Ti. See Yellow Emperor.
Human nature, to be studied, 134.
Humanity, misplaced, xlix; soldiers to be treated with, 98.
Husbanding one's strength, 67.
Husbandry, impeded by war, 161.
I river, 127.
I Ching, quoted, xv.
I-chou, 165.
I-ho, 115.
I Pu Chê Chung, xliii.
I Shuo. See Chêng Yu-hsien.
I-wu pass, 115.
I Yin. See I Chih.
Iliad, heroes of the, 127.
Impoverishment of the people, 13, 14.
Induction from experience, 163.
Inhumanity, the height of, 162.
Insubordination, 105.
Intuition necessary in dealing with spies, 169.
Invading force, principles to be observed by an, 123.
Jan Yu, disciple of Confucius, xlvi, xlviii.
Jang, siege of, 69.
Julius Caesar, 12; his "De Bello Gallico" referred to, 108.
Junction of forces, 48.
K‘ang Hsi's dictionary, referred to, 10, 18, 35, 68, 95, 117, 152, 157, 160.
Kao-ch‘ang, 115.
Kao-fan. See Hu Yen.
Kao Huan, afterwards Emperor, 137.
Kao Kêng, 151.
Kao Tsu, first Han Emperor, 33, 39, 119.
Kao Tsu, Sui .Emperor, 168.
Kao-wu pass, 115.
Khitans, 69.
Khotan, 132.
Kiangnan rebels under Sui dynasty, 151.
Kindness to the soldiers, 110, 111.
Kou Chien, King of Yüeh, xvi, 50
Ku Chin T‘u Shu Chi Ch‘ing, quoted, xvi, xxxvii, xxxix; referred to, xix, xli, li, liii. See also Sun Tzŭ, T‘u Shu text of.
Kuan Chung, 128.
Kuan Tzŭ, xxi.
Kuang, King of Shan-shan, 139, 151.
Kuang Po Wu Chih, liii.
Kuang Wu, Han Emperor, li.
Kuei-ku Tzŭ, li.
K‘uei-chou, 123.
K‘un Wei Ch‘un Ch‘iu, xxxvi.
Kung-sun Hung, lii.
Kuo Ch‘ao Shih Jên Chêng Lüeh, xxxii.
Kuo Hsün, 151.
Kutcha, King of, 132.
Ladder, kicking away the, 133.
Ladysmith, relief of, 79.
Land-tenure, ancient system of, xxv, 161.
Lao Tzŭ, the Tao of, 2; quoted, 153, 158. See also Tao Tê Ching.
Legge's "Chinese Classics," referred to, ix, xxiv, 23, 32.
Li, length of the, 9.
Li Ching, the general, xliv, 41, 123, 167; quoted, 35, 66, 87, 111, 118; supposed author of a work on war, lii.
Li Ching Ping Fa, lii.
Li Chu, 29.
Li Ch‘üan's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xxxvi; quoted, 9, 11, 18, 21, 2. 24, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 38, 46, 49, 50, 51, 55, 60, 65, 67, 68, 72, 73, 81, 83, 84, 89, 92, 97, 105, 106, 110, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 136, 142, 150, 158, 163, 167; referred to, 52, 95, 123, 127, 151.
Li Hsiang, 165.
Li Hsiung, 165.
Li I-chi, 167.
Li Kuang-pi, 65.
Li Ling, 154.
Li Shih-min, afterwards the Emperor T‘ai Tsung, xliv, lii, 35, 104, 167.
Li Shou-chêng, 70.
Li Tai Chi Shih Nien Piao, quoted, 70, 116, 166.
Li T‘ê, 165.
Li Ts‘ai, a commentator, xlii.
Li Wei-kung: See Li Ching.
Li Wei Kung Wên Tui, lii.
Liang, kingdom of, 94.
Liang-chou, 115.
Liang Hsi, 115.
Lin-chin, in Shensi, 34.
Lin Hsiang-ju, 166.
Line of least resistance, 53.
Liu Chou-tzŭ, 53.
Liu Hsiang, quoted, xiv, xxiv.
Liu Pei, 59.
Liu Piao, 69.
Liu T‘ao (attributed to T‘ai Kung), xxi, l, li, 144, 174; quoted, 22, 62, 78, 84.
Liu Yü, 78.
Lo Shang, 165.
Lo-yang, 104.
Logs and stones, rolling, 41.
Longevity, 127.
Lou Ching, 39.
Lu State, 128.
Lu Tê-ming, quoted, li.
Lü Kuang, 115.
Lü Mêng, a disciplinarian, 111; a student of Sun Tzŭ, xlii.
Lü Pu, xxxv.
Lü Shang, known as T‘ai Kung, 1, 174, 175. See also Liu T‘ao.
Lü Shih Ch‘un Ch‘iu, referred to, xxiv, 37.
Lü Wang (or Lü Ya). See Lü Shang.
Luan Yen, 106.
Lun Yü, quoted, xv, 146; referred to, xlvii, xlix, 47, 64, 156.
Lung Chü, 85.
Ma Lung, lii.
Ma Tuan-lin, xl. See also Wên Hsien Tung K‘ao.
Ma Yüan, 80.
Maiden, coyness of a, 148.
Mansfield, Lord, 143.
Marches, forced, 59.
Marengo, battle of, 57.
"Marshal Turenne," quoted, 73, 169; referred to, 61.
Marshes, 60.
Measures, of land, 14; of length, 32; of weight, 15, 32.
Mei Yao-ch‘ên's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xxxviii; quoted, 4, 6, 7, 11, 29, 34, 38, 40, 44, 47, 61, 63, 79, 84, 85, 86, 93, 94, 95, 96, 100, 102, 121, 129, 130, 131, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 145, 147, 148, 153, 155, 157, 161, 162, 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 174; referred to, 15, 23, 43, 46, 51, 106, 151.
"Mémoires concernant les Chinois," quoted, vii.
"Mémoires Historiques," referred to, xvi. See also Chavannes.
Mencius, quoted, xxv, xliii, 14, 85; referred to, 29, 32, 112, 148.
Mêng K‘ang, xxxvi.
Mêng Shih's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xxxvi; quoted, 2, 11, 15, 61, 77, 78, 116, 137, 147.
Mêng Ta. 122.
"Military Classic," 144.
Military tactics like water, 53.
Military virtues, 22.
Misfortune, three ways in which a ruler can cause, 21 sqq.
Mistakes, making no, 30.
Modern text of Sun Tzŭ. See Sun Tzŭ.
Modification of plans, 5.
Moltke, 17.
Moods, art of studying, 67.
Mounds, used in sieges, 19.
Mountains, 80.
Movable shelters, 18.
Mu, Duke of Chin, 141.
Mu-so, an instrument of torture, xlvi.
Mu T‘ien Tzŭ Chuan, 152.
Mystification of one's men, 131.
Nang Wa, xiii.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 5, 52, 148; his passage across Alps, 57; not hampered by central authority, 24; his "Maximes de Guerre," quoted, 84, 109; his "Pensées," quoted, 101.
Nelson, at Trafalgar, 37.
Nervousness, a sign of, 93.
Nicias, the Athenian general, 118 speech of, quoted, 125.
Night-fighting, 65.
Nine grounds (or situations), the, 72, 114.
Nine punitive measures, the, xxxix.
Nine variations, the, 71, 72, 74, 138.
"North hill", battle of the, 57.
O-yü, town of, 57.
Omens, not to be regarded, 126.
Opportunism, xlix.
Orders, not to be divulged, 142, 143.
Original text of Sun Tzŭ. See Sun Tzŭ.
Ou-yang Hsiu, quoted, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxviii.
Overawing the enemy, 141.
Over-caution, 158.
Over-solicitude for one's men, 79.
Pa Chên T‘u, xviii.
Pa Wang, the five, 141.
Pan Ch‘ao, 63; at Shan-shan, 139, 150; his attack on Yarkand, 132, 167.
P‘an Kêng, 173.
Peace, the true object of war, 162.
Pei Ch‘i Shu, referred to, 138.
Pei Lun, xl.
Pei T‘ang Shu Ch‘ao, 25, 36, 64, 67.
P‘ei Hsing-chien, 103.
P‘ei Wên Yün Fu, quoted, 94; referred to, xlvi, 69, 146.
Pelliot, M., xxxvi.
Pi, battle of, 106.
Pi I-hsün, xviii, xxvi, xxxiv. See also Sun Tzŭ Hsü Lu.
Pi Kua, xxxiii.
Pi-yang, city of, 73.
P‘i, siege of, 165.
Picked soldiers in front rank, 107, 108.
Ping Fa Tsa Chan, xviii.
Ping Shu Yao Chüeh, 67.
Pique, battles not to be fought out, of, 158.
Pitfalls, 60.
Plagiaries of Sun Tzŭ, xxiii, xxiv.
Plans, baulking the enemy's, 17; change of, 5, 132.
Plataea, battle of, 129.
Playfair's "Cities and Towns of China", referred to, 57.
Plunder, 62.
Po Chiang Chuan, xli.
Po-têng, battle of, 39.
Po-ts‘ai, a leader of the Yellow Turban rebels, 154.
Po Ya, referred to, 160.
P‘o-t‘ai, a spy, 165
Polybius, referred to, 120.
Port Arthur, siege of, 19.
Presence of mind, 66.
Rabbits, not indigenous to China, 149.
Rapidity, 12, 61; the essence of war, 122.
Reward and punishment, constancy in, 4.
Riches, soldiers not to acquire, 127.
River, crossing a, 129.
Roberts, Lord, night march of, 35; on Sun Tzŭ, xlii.
Ruin, one of the six calamities, 105, 106.
Ruler, military commander independent of the, 109; the enlightened, 157, 159, 174.
Rules of warfare, conventional, 148.
Salt-marshes, 83.
San Kuo Chih, quoted, 69, 111; referred to, xxxv, xli, xlii. See also Wei Chili.
San Lüeh, li; quoted, 62, 158.
San Shih Êrh Lei Ching, xviii.
San Ts‘ai T‘u Hui, liii.
San-yuan, 79.
"Science of War," quoted, 101, 130.
Screens, grass, 88.
Secrets, divulged by a spy, 170.
Sedan, capitulation of, 17.
Self-possession, 67.
Sensitiveness in a general, 79.
Sentries, 171.
Serious ground, 117, 119, 135, 137.
Sha-yüan, 168.
Shan-shan, 139; King of, 150, 151.
Shang dynasty, 173.
Shên, Duke of, 110.
Shên-wu of Ch‘i, 168.
Shên Yu, a commentator, xli.
Shepherd driving sheep, 133.
Sheridan, General, 47.
Shih Chi, objection to the chronology of, xxvi; quoted, xi, xiii, xv, xx, xlv, 40, 58, 80, 84, 90, 124, 128; referred to, xvi, xxii, xxiv, xxxiv, xlvi, xlvii, xlix, l. See also Ssŭ-ma Ch‘ien.
Shih Ching, quoted, xvi, 61, 62; referred to, 14.
Shih K‘uang, 29.
Shih Liu Ts‘ê, lii.
Shih Ssŭ-ming, the rebel leader, 65.
Shu Ching, quoted, xv; referred to, xlvii, xlviii.
Shu Lu Chieh T‘i, xxiii.
Shuai-jan, the, xxvi, 128, 129.
Shuo Wên, quoted 94, 117, 160.
Sicilian expedition, 118.
Sight, sharp, 29.
Signal-fires, 65.
Signals, 33.
Signs, observation of, 88.
Situations, the nine. See Nine grounds.
Six Chancellors of the Ch‘in State, 142.
"Six States" period, xxii.
Skilful fighter, the, 30.
Skilful leaders of old, 120.
Solidarity of troops, 123.
Sôphanes at Plataea, 129.
Sovereign, the, 55; the wise, 163.
Spies, xlix, 52, 147, 148; converted, 90, 166, 172, 173; doomed, 167, 172, 173; five classes of, 164; Frederick's classification of, 168; importance of, 175; intimate relations to be maintained with, 168; inward, 165, 172; local, 164, 172; surviving, 167, 172; to be properly paid, 162, 169.
Spirits, 163.
"Spy," evolution of the character meaning, 160.
Spying, end and aim of, 173.
Ssŭ K‘u Ch‘üan Shu Chien Ming Mu Lu, quoted, l, li, lii.
Ssŭ K‘u Ch‘üan Shu Tsung Mu T‘i Yao, quoted, xx, xli, l; referred to, xl, lii, liii.
Ssŭ ma Ch‘ien, xiv, xx; quoted, xi, xii, xlv; credibility of his narrative, xxvi; his letter to Jên An, referred to, xlvi; his mention of the 13 chapters, xxx. See also Shih Chi.
Ssŭ-ma Fa, l; quoted, xvi, 14, 17, 78, 126, 143.
Stagnation, 157.
Standard text of Sun Tzŭ. See Sun Tzŭ.
Stellar Mansions, the twenty-eight, 153.
Stonewall Jackson, biography of, quoted, 42, 59, 131.
Strategy and tactics, 52.
Strength, great, 29.
Stupidity, to be feigned, 145.
Su Hsün, quoted, xlii.
Su Shu, an ethical treatise, li.
Subdivisions of an army, 17, 33, 39.
Sui Shu, quoted, 151; bibliographical section of, quoted, xviii, xli; referred to, xxxvi, liii.
Sun Hao, a commentator, xli.
Sun Hsing-yen, xxxii; his edition of Sun Tzŭ, ix; his preface, xxxiv; quoted, xvi, xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxvi, xlviii.
Sun Tzŭ, archaic words in, xxiv; bibliographical description of edition used, xxxiv; corruptions in the text of, xxxi; difficult passages in, xxxiv; state of the text, 138; probable date of the work, xxviii.
— Modern text, 25, 26, 27, 33.
— Original text, xxxii, xxxiii, 2, 16, 27, 29, 43, 47, 53, 58, 62, 64, 67, 84, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 98, 113, 119, 121, 153, 154, 168.
— Standard text, xxxiv, 10, 58, 91, 95, 117, 127, 164.
— T‘ai I Tun Chia text, xxxvi.
— T‘u Shu text, xxxi, 16, 21, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 37, 40, 43, 46, 47, 50, 52, 58, 64, 67, 69, 84, 87, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 105, 110, 114, 117, 120, 121, 133, 135, 140, 145, 146, 153, 159, 164, 167, 168, 171, 172, 175.
— T‘ung Tien text, xxxiii, 1, 10, 12, 19, 22, 23, 25, 41, 45, 47, 50, 53, 58, 59, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 74, 77, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 101, 104, 108, 112, 113, 117, 119, 136, 137, 152, 153, 153, 159, 164, 167, 170, 171, 172.
— Yü Lan text, xxxiii, 3, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 19, 25, 27, 37, 42, 45, 47, 50, 52, 53, 62, 64, 67, 68, 77,, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 108, 112, 121, 129, 141, 153, 158, 159, 161, 164, 167, 170, 171, 172.
Sun Tzŭ Hsü Lu, xviii, xxxiv; quoted, xxiii, xxiv, 118.
Sun Tzŭ Hui Chêng, xlii.
Sun Tzŭ Ts‘an T‘ung, xlii.
Sun Tzŭ Wên Ta, xvii.
Sun Wu, a practical soldier, xxv; conjectural outline of his life, xxix; not a man of eminent position, xxviii; probable origin of the legend connected with, xxix; Ssŭ-ma Ch‘ien's biography of, xi; supposititious works of, xvii, xviii. See also Sun Tzŭ.
Sun Wu Sun Tzŭ, xvii.
Sung Shih, referred to, xlii; bibliographical section of, xvii, xxxi, xxxvi, lii, liii.
Superstitious doubts, 126.
Supplies, 137, 161; line of, 101.
Ta-hsi Wu, 168.
Ta Ming I T‘ung Chih, quoted, xxxii.
Taboo character, 124.
Tactical manœuvring, 56.
Tactician, the skilful, 128.
Tactics, direct and indirect, 20, 34 sqq.; modification of; 52, 53; not to be repeated, 52; variation of, 26, 71, 74.
T‘ai Kung. See Lü Shang.
T‘ai Kung Ping Fa, li.
T‘ai Ping Yü Lan, xvi, xxxiii, liii. See also Sun Tzŭ, Yü Lan text.
T‘ai-po Shan-jên, quoted, 132.
T‘ai Po Yin Ching, xxxvi.
T‘ai Tsung, the Emperor. See Li Shih-min.
T‘ai Yüan Ching, referred to, xxiv.
Tallies, official, 146.
T‘ang, prince of, xiii.
T‘ang, the Completer. See Ch‘êng Tang.
T‘ang Chien, 167.
T‘ang Shu, bibliographical section of, referred to, xxxviii, xli. See also Hsin T‘ang Shu and Chiu T‘ang Shu.
Tao Tê Ching, quoted, xlix, 147, 155, 158, 161.
Temple, used for deliberations, 7, 8.
Temporising ground, 100, 102. Tenacity, 125.
Têng Ch‘iang, 78.
Têng Ming-shih, quoted, xv.
Terrain, natural advantages of, 108; six kinds of, 100.
Textual criticism and emendations, 1, 7, 13, 14, 25, 29, 30, 36, 41, 43, 46, 47, 49, 71, 74, S6, 87, 91, 94, 99, 113, 117, 121, 124, 127, 133, 158, 167.
Thermopylae, 115.
Three ancient dynasties, the, xxxix.
Thucydides, quoted, 125; referred to, 118.
Ti river, 144.
Tien Chi, 40.
T‘ien-i-ko catalogue, quoted, xxxvi, xl.
T‘ien Pao, xv.
T‘ien Pu, 105.
T‘ien Tan, defender of Chi-mo, 90, 120, 155; his use of spies, 166. Time, value of, 12; waste of, 157.
Tou Chien-tê, King of Hsia, 104.
Tou Ku, 151.
Trafalgar, battle of, 37.
Training of officers and men. 4.
Trebia, battle of the, 66.
Ts‘ai, prince of. xiii.
Ts‘ao Kuei, mentioned in the Tso Chuan, xxi; on the advantage of spirit, 66; threatens Huan Kung, 128.
Ts‘ao Kung or Ts‘ao Ts‘ao, xix, xxxi, xxxvi, xlii, xliv, 4, 59, 69, 76, 151; his commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xxxv, xxxvii, xxxviii, xl; quoted, 1, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 44, 46, 51, 52, 55, 56, 59, 60, 67, 71, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 84, 86, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 103, 104, 106, 111, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125, 126, 127, 131, 137, 140, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 152, 154, 156, 157; referred to, 19, 43, 62, 136; his preface, xx, xxxiv; translated, xv sqq.
Tsêng Shên, xxiv.
Tso Chuan, delivered to Wu Ch‘i, xxiv; has no mention of Sun Tzŭ, xx, xxvi, xxviii; quoted, xxvii, xxix, xlix, 19, 59, 65, 89, 97, 106, 111, 162; referred to, xxi, xlvii.
Tso Tsung-t‘ang, 63.
Tsui-li, battle of, xxx.
Tu Mu's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii; quoted, 4, 11, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37. 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 67, 68. 69, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 101, 105, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 118, 119, 122, 124, 126, 131, 133, 136, 137, 138, 146, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 161, 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 175; referred to, 20, 65, 73, 150; his preface, quoted, xix, xxxvii, xxxviii, xlv.
T‘u Shu Chih, lii.
Tu Yu, xxxiii; his notes on Sun Tzŭ in the T‘ung Tien, xxxvii; quoted, 4, 6, 11, 19, 23, 24, 36, 38, 47, 56, 60, 61, 62, 77, 83, 88, 91, 92, ' 93, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 116, 117, 120, 137, 138, 152, 153, 166, 167, 169, 171, 172; referred to, 28, 51, 74, 155, 173.
T‘u Shu encyclopaedia. See Ku Chin T‘u Shu Chi Ch‘éng.
— Text of Sun Tzŭ in the. See Sun Tzŭ.
Tung Chou Lieh Kuo, quoted, 56.
T‘ung Chih, referred to, xxxii, xxxvi, xl, xli, liii.
T‘ung Tien, xvii, xxxiii, xxxvii, lii; liii. See also Tu Yu.
— Text of Sun Tzŭ in the. See Sun Tzŭ.
Turenne, Marshal, on deceiving the enemy, 61; on sieges, 73; on spies, 169.
Tzŭ-ch‘an, saying of, xlix.
Tzŭ-ch‘ang. See Nang Wa.
"Unterricht des Königs von Preussen," quoted, 168, 169.
Uxbridge, Lord, 5.
Valleys, 80.
Victory, halfway towards, 111, 112; without fighting, 17.
Virtues, the five cardinal, 3.
Wan, town of, 122.
Wang Chien, 124.
Wang Hsi's commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xl; quoted, 1, 2, 11, 13, 14, 23, 26, 33, 34, 38, 44, 52, 53, 55, 60. 61, 63, 71, 78, 84, 92, 94, 95, 96, 106, 114, 117, 119, 124, 132, 133, 135, 137, 142, 155, 157, 169; referred to, 67, 76.
Wang Kuo, the rebel, 94.
Wang Liao, 128.
Wang Ling, a commentator, xxxvii, xli. See also Wang Tzŭ.
Wang Shih-ch‘ung, 104.
Wang T‘ing-ts‘ou, 105.
Wang-tzŭ Ch‘eng-fu, xiii.
War, want of fixity in, 54.
Water, an aid to the attack, 156.
Waterloo, battle of, 5, 48, 130.
Weapons, 14
Weeping, 127.
Wei, kingdom of, xxxv; province of, 105.
Wei river, 81.
Wei Chih (in the San Kuo Chih), xix, xxxvi.
Wei Liao Tzŭ, li; quoted, 35, 73, 97, 99, 107, 125; referred to, xxiv.
Wei Po, 165.
Wei Wu Ti. See Ts‘ao Kung.
Well-being of one's men, to be studied, 123.
Wellington, his description of his army at Waterloo, 130; on the eve of Waterloo, 5; saying, of, 110; skilful in dissimulation, 6.
Wên, Duke of Chin, 141.
Wên Hsien T‘ung K‘ao, quoted, xxxvii, xxxviii, xl, xli; referred to, xxi, xxiii, xxxvi, liii.
Wên-su, King of, 132.
Wên Ti, Emperor of Sui dynasty, 151.
Western Sacred Mountain, xxxii.
Wind, days of, 153; duration of, 155.
"Words on Wellington," quoted, 5.
Wu, city of, xiv; king of, 118. See also Ho Lu.
Wu State, xxv, 49, 50, 129, 159; dates in the history of, xxvii, xxviii; first mentioned in history, xxvii.
Wu Ch‘i, p. l, 64, 65, 110; compared with Sun Wu, xliii; plagiary of Sun Tzŭ, xxiv. See also Wu Tzŭ.
Wu Ch‘i Ching, lii.
Wu Huo, 29.
Wu Jên-chi, xxxiii.
Wu-lao, heights of, 104.
Wu Nien-hu, xxxiii.
Wu-tu, town of, 165.
Wu-tu Ch‘iang, 80.
Wu Tzŭ, xix, l; quoted, 24, 56, 66, 77, 80, 81, 98, 107, 115, 131, 142, 156; referred to, xxiv.
Wu Tzŭ-hsü, xxix, xlviii: See also Wu Yüan.
Wu Yüan, xiii, xxiii, 56; a spurious treatise fathered on, xxix.
Wu Yüeh Ch‘un Ch‘iu, quoted, xiv, xviii.
Wylie's "Notes," referred to, xli, lii.
Ya, King of Chao, 144.
Yang Han, 115.
Yang-p‘ing, city of, 46.
Yangtsze river, 123.
Yao Hsiang, 78.
Yarkand, battle of, 132.
Yeh Shih or Yeh Shui-hsin, his theory about Sun Tzŭ, xxi, xxiii, xxv; on Sun Tzŭ's style, xxiv.
Yellow Turban rebels, 154.
Yen Shih-ku, 167.
Yen Ti, 84.
Yen Tzŭ, quoted, 98.
Yin and Yang, 2.
Ying, capital of Ch‘u, xii, xiii, xvi, xxix.
Ying K‘ao-shu, xxi.
Yo Fei, a student of Sun Tzŭ, xlii.
Yo I, 117.
Yü Hai, quoted, xlii; referred to, xxxvi, xl, lii, liii.
Yü Lan encyclopaedia. See T‘ai P‘ing Yü Lan.
— Text of Sun Tzŭ in the. See Sun Tzŭ.
Yüan, the two, opponents of Ts‘ao Ts‘ao, xxxv.
Yuan Chien Lei Han, liii.
Yüan Shao, 151.
Yüeh State, 129; compared with Wu, xxvi, 49, 50; first mentioned in history, xxvii.
Yüeh Chüeh Shu, quoted, xiv.
Yüeh Yü, xxi.
Yung Lo Ta Tien, lii.