Three kingdoms : a historical novel
Guanzhong Luo (Author), Moss Roberts (Translator)
"Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam and remains a great work of world literature."--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2020
Abridged edition View all formats and editions
University of California Press, Oakland, 2020
Historical fiction
xxi, 454 pages : map ; 20 cm
9780520344556, 0520344553
1180204227
Foreword to the Abridged Edition by Moss Roberts Preface to the Abridged Edition Acknowledgments for the Unabridged Edition Foreword to the Unabridged Edition by John S. Service Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel Afterword: About Three Kingdoms by Moss Roberts List of Principal Characters Chronology of Main Events
Translated from the Chinese