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Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel

By Guanzhong Luo

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780520957879
DOI
10.1525/9780520957879
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23035299 bytes)
Pages
512\512
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 15:15:00

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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