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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The "New" Sun-tzu | |
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| Archaeology: A Revolution in the Study of Early China | |
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| The Excavation at Yin-chueh-shan | |
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| The "One or Two 'Master Suns'" Debate | |
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| Sun Wu as a Historical Person | |
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| The Reconstructed Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare | |
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| Analysis of Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare | |
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| Wisdom and Warfare | |
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| The Classical Chinese World View: The Uncommon Assumptions | |
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| Some Classical Western Assumptions: A "Two-World" Theory | |
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| Some Classical Chinese Assumptions: A "This-World" View | |
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| Centripetal Harmony and Authority | |
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| Warfare as the Art of Contextualizing | |
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| Strategic Advantage (shih) | |
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| Strategic Advantage (shih) and Strategic Positioning (hsing) | |
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| According with the Enemy (yin) | |
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| An Attitude Toward Warfare | |
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| The Exemplary Commander | |
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| Foreknowledge (chih) | |
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| Introduction to the Translations | |
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| Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare: A Translation | |
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| Sun-tzu: Part I | |
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| The Thirteen-Chapter Text | |
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| On Assessments | |
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| On Waging Battle | |
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| Planning the Attack | |
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| Strategic Dispositions (hsing) | |
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| Strategic Advantage (shih) | |
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| Weak Points and Strong Points | |
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| Armed Contest | |
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| Adapting to the Nine Contingencies (pien) | |
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| Deploying the Army | |
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| The Terrain | |
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| The Nine Kinds of Terrain | |
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| The Incendiary Attack | |
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| Using Spies | |
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| Sun-tzu: Part II | |
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| Text Recovered from the Yin-chueh-shan Han Dynasty Strips | |
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| The Questions of Wu | |
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| [The Four Contingencies] | |
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| The Yellow Emperor Attacks the Red Emperor | |
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| The Disposition [of the Terrain] II | |
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| [An Interview with the King of Wu] | |
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| Sun-tzu: Part III | |
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| Text Recovered from Later Works | |
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| A Conversation between the King of Wu and Sun Wu | |
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| Sun Wu Discusses the Commander | |
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| Sun Wu Discusses Deploying the Army | |
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| The Prognostications of Sun-tzu | |
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| Sun Wu Discusses the "Eight-Division Formation" | |
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| The Classic of the Thirty-two Ramparts | |
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| Han Dynasty Bamboo Strips from Ta-tung Country | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Background to the Excavation at Yin-chueh-shan | |
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| Dating the Tombs and Identifying the Occupants | |
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| The First Published Reports | |
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| The Bamboo Strip Manuscripts and Their Dates | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography of Works Cited | |
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| Index | |