Written by Chinese general Sun Tzu in the 6th century BC, The Art of War is a military strategy book that, for managerial purposes, recommends being aware of and acting on strengths and weaknesses of both a manager's organization and a foe's.

Written Chinese () comprises Chinese characters used to represent the Chinese language, and the rules about how they are arranged and punctuated.

Although most other varieties of Chinese are not written, there is a well-developed Written Cantonese tradition.

Written Chinese is not based on an alphabet or a compact syllabary.

" Written Chinese contempt is unmistakably evident in a group of Chinese characters that James A. Matisoff calls " graphic pejoratives.

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Written Vernacular Chinese () refers to forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular language, in contrast to Classical Chinese, the written standard used from the Spring and Autumn Period to the early twentieth century.

This is commonly called Standard Written Chinese or Modern Written Chinese to avoid ambiguity with spoken vernaculars, with the written vernaculars of earlier eras, and with modern unofficial written vernaculars such as written Cantonese or written Hokkien.

Beijing Mandarin and Jianghuai Mandarin formed the standard for Written vernacular Chinese before and during the Qing dynasty up until its replacement by modern Standard Chinese.

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Written Japanese uses several different scripts: kanji ( Chinese characters ), 2 sets of kana ( phonetic syllabaries ) and roman letters.

Written evidence for early explosive shells in China appears in the early Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) Chinese military manual Huolongjing, compiled by Jiao Yu ( fl.

The writing system of the Muslim Filipinos in the different independent sultanates of Mindanao during the Spanish colonization shifted from abugida script to Arabic alphabet while the writing system of most of the Catholicized Chinese Filipinos shifted from Written Chinese to Abecedario alphabet.

** Written communication ( writing ) – representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols ( known as a writing system ).

Written modern Icelandic derives from the Old Norse phonemic writing system.

It was also nominated for Best Writing — Screenplay Written for the Screen for the work by Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon making Toy Story the first animated film to be nominated for a writing award.

Written as fictional social commentary and intended as a space-filler to allow Marquis to meet the challenge of writing a daily newspaper column six days a week, archy and mehitabel is Marquis ' most famous work.

Written " in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote " ( see title page on right ), the work owes much of its humour to the techniques developed by Cervantes, and its subject-matter to the seemingly loose arrangement of events, digressions and lower-class characters to the genre of writing known as picaresque.

Written from prison, where he had no recourse to reference books or a library but his personal notes, Glimpses of World History contains the history of humankind from 6000 BC to the time of writing of the book.

Written Language refers to communication in its written form-most commonly in the forms of reading and writing.

Written accounts, surviving buildings, and archaeological excavations all show, however, that contrary to popular belief such rooms rarely existed: most monastic writing was done in cubicle-like recesses in the cloister, or in the monks ' own cells.

Written just after or possibly contemporarily with Adomnán's Vita Columbae, the Vita Sancti Cuthberti is the first piece of Northumbrian Latin writing and the earliest piece of English Latin hagiography.

Written for his grandchildren, The Story of Mankind tells in brief chapters the history of Western civilization beginning with primitive man, covering the development of writing, art, and architecture, the rise of major religions, and the formation of the modern ( for 1921 ) nation-state.

Written primarily by Gentry Lee, Rama II has a distinctly different writing style than the original, with a more character driven narrative and a closer-to-contemporary mindset, ambience and human relations than the first novel's utopian social assumptions.

* The writing on the wall -- her last poem " Written in Red "

Written and oral histories of various animals or pedigrees of certain types of horse have been kept throughout history, though breed registry stud books trace only to about the 13th century, at least in Europe, when pedigrees were tracked in writing, and the practice of declaring a type of horse to be a breed or a purebred became more widespread.

Written over a year before Mazzy Star's inception, the track " Ghost Highway " is the duo's only original song to not feature a writing credit from Sandoval, while another song found on the album, " Give You My Lovin '," was written by Going Home guitarist Sylvia Gomez and first recorded by Sandoval and Gomez in 1987.

Written by Alan Bleasdale, despite languishing on the shelf for two years waiting for a broadcast slot before being shown in 1980, the play was a great success and led to Bleasdale writing and Wearing producing Boys from the Blackstuff ( 1982 ), a sequel series showing what happened to the characters involved after the events of the play.

Written ( textual ) genres are social constructions that represent specific purposes for reading and writing within different social activities, created by social groups who need them to perform certain things.

The Japanese writing system originated through adoption and adaptation of Written Chinese.

Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss were nominated for the award for Best Written American Musical by the Writers Guild of America for writing the script for the 1964 film Roustabout ( 1964 ).

Written solely by Gaye, it was one of the few songs they recorded without Ashford & Simpson writing or producing.

Written by Sarah Solemani, who was something of a first timer herself as this was be her writing debut.

Written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, while also writing Monster, 20th Century Boys was originally serialized in Big Comic Spirits from 1999 to 2006.

Written Danish and Norwegian Bokmål are particularly close, though the phonology ( that is, the system of relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of the language ) and the prosody ( the patterns of stress and intonation ) differ somewhat.

Written in portable C, Wget can be easily installed on any Unix-like system and has been ported to many environments, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, MorphOS and AmigaOS.

Written in binary, a power of two always has the form 100 … 0 or 0. 00 … 01, just like a power of ten in the decimal system.

Written in Perl, AWStats can be deployed on almost any operating system.

Written by Laurence Reeves in England, Minerva was a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS, the built-in operating system of the Sinclair QL line of personal computers.

Written records for Ford begin after the Norman Conquest in 1066 and the introduction of the manorial system, when the manor of Ford was held by the Heron family.