Guo Huaruo
Guo Huaruo | |||||||||
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郭化若 | |||||||||
 Guo in 1955 | |||||||||
| Commander of the Shanghai Garrison Command | |||||||||
| In office August 1949 – August 1955 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Song Shilun | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Wang Bicheng | ||||||||
| Political Commissar the Shanghai Garrison Command | |||||||||
| In office May 1949 – November 1950 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | New title | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Li Shiying | ||||||||
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| Born | Guo Kebin (郭可彬) 10 August 1904 Fuzhou, Fujian, Qing China | ||||||||
| Died | 26 November 1995 (aged 91) Beijing, China | ||||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Republic of China Military Academy | ||||||||
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| Allegiance |  People's Republic of China | ||||||||
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| Years of service | 1923–1985 | ||||||||
| Rank |  Lieutenant general | ||||||||
| Battles/wars | Second Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 郭化若 | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 郭可彬 | ||||||||
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Guo Huaruo (Chinese: 郭化若; pinyin: Guō Huàruò; Wade–Giles: Kuo Hua-jo; 1904−1995) was a Chinese military strategist and lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army. According to Alastair Iain Johnston, Guo was until the mid-1980s "the CCP's most authoritative interpreter and annotator" of The Art of War by Sun Tzu,[1] but Guo was "practically unknown in the West".[2]
Johnson said 'Guo stressed that from a Marxist–Leninist perspective the notion of "not fighting and subduing the enemy"'—the core of the conventional interpretation of Sun Zi—was un-Marxist, since class enemies could not be credibly defeated without the application of violence.'[1]
Around June 4, 1937, Guo was the dean of studies of Qingyang Infantry School.[3]
Works
Guo wrote A Preliminary Study of Sun Tzu's Art of War (T: 孫子兵法初步研究, S: 孙子兵法初步研究, P: Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ Chūbù Yánjiū), which was completed in 1939. It was used as a military textbook in areas controlled by Communists. The book says "The position Kuo has now enjoyed as a leading military theoretician seems to date from that period."[2]
By 1971, Guo's latest edition of The Art of War was A Modern Translation with New Chapter Arrangement of Sun Tzu's ʻArt of Warʼ (T: 今譯新編孫子兵法, S: 今译新编孙子兵法, P: Jīnyì Xīn Biān Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ). In this edition, Guo rearranged the material, used Simplified Chinese, and phrased Sun Tzu's verses in colloquial Chinese.[2]
List of works
- A Preliminary Study of Sun Tzu's Art of War (T: 孫子兵法初步研究, S: 孙子兵法初步研究, P: Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ Chūbù Yánjiū)[2]
- A Modern Translation with New Chapter Arrangement of Sun Tzu's ʻArt of Warʼ (T: 今譯新編孫子兵法, S: 今译新编孙子兵法, P: Jīnyì Xīn Biān Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ)[2]
- Guo Huaruo's Selected Essays on Military Affairs (S: 郭化若军事论文选集, T: 郭化若軍事論文選集 Jūnshì Lùnwén Xuǎnjí). Liberation Army Press (Beijing), 1989.[1]
- Includes "Sun Zi yi zhu' qian yan," the preface to "Translation and Annotation of Sun Zi," 1983.
Notes
References
- Johnston, Alastair Iain. "Cultural Realism and Strategy in Maoist China." Located in: Katzenstein, Peter J. (Contributor: Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on International Peace & Security) The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics. Columbia University Press, 1996. pp. 216–268. ISBN 0231104693, 9780231104692.
- Schram, Stuart R. Mao's Road to Power - Revolutionary Writings, 1912-1949: The Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-1920. M.E. Sharpe, April 1, 1997. ISBN 1563244578, 9781563244575.
- Sun, Tzu (translation and introduction by Samuel B. Griffith, foreword by B.H. Liddell Hart). The Art of War. Oxford University Press, September 15, 1971. 56. ISBN 0195014766, 9780195014761.
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