Sun Tzu (Author) Sun Tzu was a Chinese general and military strategist who lived in the 6th century BC. Peter Harris (Translator) Peter Harris is a specialist in the political and cultural history of China. He is the founding Director of the Asian Studies Institute at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, and a Visiting Professor at Nanjing University, China. He has written, edited and translated numerous books on China and Asia. Other volumes he has edited for Everyman's Library include The Travels of Marco Polo , Zen Poems and Three Hundred Tang Poems.