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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. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing interest to historians, poets, and dramatists. Writing some 1,200 years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary heritage to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. Luo's novel offers a startling and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways the Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day. 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, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and remains a great work of world literature. The University of California Press is pleased to make the complete and unabridged translation available again.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 552
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
14 June 2004
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780520224780
Format: Paperback
"A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history, which has been translated into lively English by Moss Roberts. . . . The subject matter of Three Kingdoms has long held an extraordinary grip on the Chinese imagination. . . . No less an authority than Mao Zedong asserted that when he set out on the campaigns that would ultimately bring him to power, Three Kingdoms was the book he valued most."
Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400) was a novelist and dramatist who played an important role in the development of Chinese popular fiction.
Moss Roberts is Professor of Chinese at New York University. He is the translator and editor of Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (1979).
John S. Service (1909 - 1999) grew up in China and was a Foreign Service officer there from 1933 to 1945.
Moss Roberts is Professor of Chinese at New York University. He is the translator and editor of Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (1979).
John S. Service (1909 - 1999) grew up in China and was a Foreign Service officer there from 1933 to 1945.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
By John S. Service
THREE KINGDOMS
A HISTORICAL NOVEL
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
By John S. Service
THREE KINGDOMS
A HISTORICAL NOVEL