Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel

Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel

by Moss Roberts (Translator), Luo Guanzhong (Author), Luo Guanzhong (Author), Moss Roberts (Translator), Luo Guanzhong (Author)

Synopsis

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. This abridged edition is particularly useful for undergraduate courses. For the complete text, see the unabridged edition, now available in two parts: Part One; Part Two

$4.20

Save:$27.16 (87%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Abridged
Pages: 506
Edition: Abridged Edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 29 Sep 1999

ISBN 10: 0520215850
ISBN 13: 9780520215856

Media Reviews
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. --Patrick Hanan, New York Times Book Review
Author Bio
Moss Roberts is Professor of Chinese at New York University. He translated an unabridged edition of Three Kingdoms (California, 1992) and is the translator and editor of Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (1979).