Qian Jibo spends eight years in writing Annotations on Sun Tzu's Chapters and Sentences,which is one of his most important military works.This book breaks the traditional convention of"using Confucianism to explain military science".Based on reality,it combines ancient military studies with modern technology and tactics.Unconfined to ancient books,it extensively cites the most advanced mili-tary theories from Western countries such as Germany and the United States.At the same time,it cites a large number of ancient,modern,domestic and foreign military cases and provides a comprehensive analy-sis from point to surface,which makes the content is extremely rich.Overall,Annotations on Sun Tzu's Chapters and Sentences has such characteristics that it is grounded in reality and runs through ancient and modern times,widely introduces Western learning and integrates Chinese and foreign cultures and the extended linkage and boundless borders,which highlights Qian Jibo's thinking of being cautious in war.It pays attention to distinguishing tactics and strategies and emphasizes comprehensive mobilization and the need to mobilize the entire country once war breaks out.The period of the Republic of China is a modern transformation period for Sun Tzu's military science.Annotations on Sun Tzu's Chapters and Sentences has the characteristics of the research of Sun Tzu's military science in the Republic of China,and provides important literature references for the research of Qian Jibo's academic achievements and thoughts.
Qian JiboAnnotations on Sun Tzu's Chapters and Sentencesmilitary sciencestrategytacticsbe cautious in war