Everyone reads and understands Sun Tzu’s the Art of War from a different perspective, but many contemporary foreign strategists are more interested in finding relevance of how Sun Tzu’s teachings adapt to the international strategic context of the present day. In the last 2,500 years that Chinese scholars have inquired into military thinking, only Sun Tzu’s the Art of War has received critical acclaim while other treatise have been ignored. The impressive advancement of scholarship on Sun Tzu does mask its closed relations with the various governments’ promotion, especially when the civil leaders find themselves confronted with foreign invasions. The hardships faced by the leaders and aristocratic class in different times addresses the question of why only one author has risen to fame while his compatriots have fallen by the wayside; each generation embodies what came before, and there are select people in the society who are responsible for upholding the values and inheriting the military tradition, and passing it onto the next generation. They use it to express their own originality in a kind of emerging tradition, and every generation writes their own history and interprets Sun Tzuin their own way. They read its texts through their own perspective and challenge it in order to solve the problems of their day. Examining trends in scholarship, the elite tradition, and those people in charge of the high culture dealing with the Art of War will further develop our understanding in this field, and perhaps evolve our approach to investigating its relevance for our time. For this purpose, this article will examine Liu Yuan, Li Ling, and Li Jijun, to try and comprehend them in their own specific context, and also to understand Sun Tzu’s relevance in the modern day.