Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
The Art of War in East Asia
The Norton Museum of Art presents an exhibition on the art of war.
When:
July 23, 2011 12:00am to November 13, 2011 12:00am
About 2,600 years ago, one of the most influential books on military strategy, The Art of War (孫子兵法, Sunzi Bing Fa) was written. The author was probably a general named SUN Wu (孫武, 544 - 512 BCE). He commanded 30,000 troops in the service of HE Lu (阖闾), ruler of the State of Wu (吴国, Wu Guo). He Lu, a member of the Ji (姬) family who founded the Zhou dynasty, bestowed the honorific title of “master” on Sun. He is known to this day as Sun Zi (孫子, Master Sun). This book is a combination of information passed down from father to son in the Sun military family and Sun Wu’s own ideas, which are aligned with the Chinese philosophy of Taoism.
The Art of War has been studied through the ages by famous military men such as Napoleon, and warlords in Japan. Both ideas from this book, and East Asian art, provide inspiration for heroes and villains in contemporary tales and film. For example, film director George Lucas’ interest in the samurai warriors of Japan is clearly manifested in the creation of the Star Wars characters, such as Darth Vader. In the end, Vader came to understand one of the key concepts in The Art of War: “If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.”
Phone Number:
561-832-5196
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