The Legend of Sun Wu, a Shandong Celebrity

The legendary life of Sun Wu, from a young exile to a master of military strategy, blending historical events with fictional details to portray the turbulent age of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. In the late Spring and Autumn period, the Zhou court was in decline, the lords vied for supremacy, the Tian clan rose in Qi, and Wu made ready for war. A great upheaval that would change the shape of the realm was brewing. The central thread follows the life of Sun Wu, courtesy name Changqing, weaving together the rise and fall of the Sun clan, the execution of beauties in the Wu palace, the Battle of Boju, and the writing of his treatise. It portrays his transformation from an exiled noble of Qi into a great general of Wu, revealing why the Art of War was inevitably born in its time.

Themes explored include the contest between war and human nature, the struggle between power and wisdom, the clash between ideals and reality, and the ultimate vision of peace: "subduing the enemy without fighting."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.