ENGLISHCHINESE

Three kingdoms : a historical novel

By Moss Roberts , Guanzhong Luo

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press;Foreign Languages Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0520282167, 978-0-520-28216-2, 978-0-520-95787-9, 978-0-520-21585-6
Language
englishchinese
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7472104 bytes)
Edition
Fifteenth anniversary abridged edition
Pages
489\514
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
220-265 -- Fiction. China.China -- History -- Three kingdoms

Description

Updated with a new foreword by Moss Roberts for this fifteenth anniversary edition, 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.

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