Additional Transcriber’s Notes

Text notes:

  1. The text contains Chinese characters. Character variants matching the printed text are used whenever possible rather than more common versions. Only Unicode normalized form C versions were used (see below). For best results, insure that the eReader has the latest Chinese font packages.
  2. For the HTML version, page numbers of the original printed text are displayed within braces to the side of the text.
  3. Footnotes have been renumbered and placed at the end of the book.
  4. The annotation text has been indented for easier reading. The original printed text did not indent this text.
  5. In the Introduction pages xi and xii, sentence groups in the quotation from Ssŭ-ma Ch‘ien’s biography of Sun Tzŭ separated by em-dashes are now separated into paragraphs for clarity.
  6. In the original book, several Chinese text lines were placed in the top quarter of a page and the translation in the bottom three quarters of the page. This transcription places each Chinese text line above its corresponding translation.
  7. Missing quotation marks, capitalization, punctuation, and spaces were silently corrected.
  8. Except as mentioned above and in the Change List that follows, every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including non-standard punctuation, inconsistently hyphenated words, etc. The corrigenda has already been incorporated into the text.
  9. New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

Change List (page numbers from original printed book):

Character changes to Unicode normalized form C versions: