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Two Concepts in Early Chinese Military Thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Benjamin E. Wallacker
Benjamin E. Wallacker*
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University of California, Davis
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The terms chèng (1) and ch'í (11) present a perplexing problem for the reader or translator of texts in traditional Chinese military thought. In nonmilitary contexts chèng is rendered by a range of expressions including 'upright, true, orthodox, correct, regular, authorized, exact, straight, formal, just, at the time of, during, to adjust, principal, original, obverse', ch'í is translated 'strange, wonderful, rare'; the same graph read chī is translated ‘odd, single, surplus’.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 42 , Issue 2: April-June , June 1966, pp. 295 - 299
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Copyright © 1966 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Sun-tzu shih chia chu, edition Chu-tzu chi-ch'eng (Peking, 1954).

2 Lao-tzu chu, edition Chu-tzu chi-ch'eng (Peking, 1954).

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7 Bernhard Karlgren, ‘Grammata serica recensa’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 29.1–332 (1957).

8 Kuo-yü 19.10a (SPTK edition).

9 Ch'un-ch'iu ching-chuan chi-chueh 15.12a (SPTK edition).