{
    "schema": "prokopton42-public-thinker-v1",
    "id": "sunzi",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/sunzi/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Sun Tzu",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "The traditional strategist credited with The Art of War, Sun Tzu treats victory as a problem of knowledge, preparation, and economy of force.",
    "body": "Conservative late Warring States horizon for the formation of the received strategic text. This is a textual horizon, not a claim that one biographical Sun Wu lived until this date.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "traditional 6th-5th c. BCE; historical identity disputed",
        "era": "Classical Antiquity",
        "distance": "about 2,475–2,575 years ago",
        "age_at_death": null
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "detail": "Early Chinese military thought",
        "labels": [
            "Early Chinese thought",
            "Early Chinese military thought"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": -300,
        "display": "300 BCE",
        "reason": "Conservative late Warring States horizon for the formation of the received strategic text. This is a textual horizon, not a claim that one biographical Sun Wu lived until this date."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 1,
        "passages": 13,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr",
            "lzh"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 1
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Qi cultural region",
            "period": "traditional 6th century BCE",
            "description": "Later tradition names Qi as Sun Wu’s place of origin. This is not a secure biographical location.",
            "confidence": "E",
            "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%AB%E5%AD%90%E5%85%B5%E6%B3%95"
        },
        {
            "name": "Wu cultural region",
            "period": "traditional late 6th century BCE",
            "description": "Sima Qian’s later account associates Sun Wu with King Helü’s court. The service narrative remains disputed.",
            "confidence": "E",
            "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%AB%E5%AD%90%E5%85%B5%E6%B3%95"
        },
        {
            "name": "Yinqueshan",
            "period": "2nd century BCE Western Han manuscript context",
            "description": "Archaeological setting of bamboo Sunzi fragments and lost material. The witness is not silently substituted for the received thirteen chapters.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%AB%E5%AD%90%E5%85%B5%E6%B3%95"
        },
        {
            "name": "Gusu / Suzhou",
            "period": "later Shiji service narrative",
            "description": "Concrete map point for the disputed tradition that Sun Wu served King Helü at the Wu court.",
            "confidence": "E",
            "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%AB%E5%AD%90%E5%85%B5%E6%B3%95"
        },
        {
            "name": "Boju",
            "period": "506 BCE in later tradition",
            "description": "Later biography associates Sun Wu with Wu's campaign against Chu. The attribution is not treated as secure biography.",
            "confidence": "E",
            "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%AB%E5%AD%90%E5%85%B5%E6%B3%95"
        }
    ],
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}