| Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Luo, Guanzhong (Author), Roberts, Moss (Translator), Roberts, Moss (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0520282167 ISBN-13: 9780520282162 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $38.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Literary Collections | Asian - General - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 895.134 |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 5.43" W x 8.36" (1.26 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |