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Michael Nylan

Michael Nylan is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes?The Art of War?and China’s Early Empires with Michael Loewe,?Yang?Xiong?and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China, The Five “Confucian” Classics,?Lives of Confucius with Thomas A. Wilson, and several essays on feminism and Confucianism.

Michael Nylan

Michael Nylan is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes?The Art of War?and China’s Early Empires with Michael Loewe,?Yang?Xiong?and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China, The Five “Confucian” Classics,?Lives of Confucius with Thomas A. Wilson, and several essays on feminism and Confucianism.

Books by Michael Nylan

  • The Analects: A Norton Critical Edition

    Confucius, Michael Nylan, Simon Leys

    First Edition, Paperback, 2014

    “Leys has made Confucius speak English more persuasively than any translator to date. His achievement is one of simplicity. . . . Leys sees his task as making the Confucius of the Analects fully...
  • The Art of War: A New Translation by Michael Nylan

    Sun Tzu, Michael Nylan

    Hardback, 2020

    For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator re-imagines The Art of War.
  • The Art of War: A Norton Critical Edition

    Sun Tzu, Michael Nylan, Michael Nylan

    First Edition, Paperback, 2022

    “Each sentence is a struck match... [Nylan’s] translation is insightful and alert.” — Dwight Garner, TheNew York Times
  • The Art of War: A New Translation by Michael Nylan

    Sun Tzu, Michael Nylan

    E Book, 2020

    For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator re-imagines The Art of War.
  • The Analects: A Norton Critical Edition

    Confucius, Michael Nylan, Simon Leys

    First Edition, E Book, 2021

    “Leys has made Confucius speak English more persuasively than any translator to date. His achievement is one of simplicity. . . . Leys sees his task as making the Confucius of the Analects fully...