Three Kingdoms (Pt. 2)

"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.

ISBN 0520225031   Pages 555 ISBN13 9780520225039 (What's this?)   Part volume Complete and Unabridged Publisher The University Press Group Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint University of California Press   Co_publisher Foreign Languages Press, Beijing Format Paperback   Weight (grammes) 999 Publication date 14 Mar 2001   Published in CA Translator Moss Roberts   Height (mm) 254 Writer of foreword Service, John S.   Width (mm) 178 Library of Congress 2004043994   Spine width (mm) 31 DEWEY 895.1346   Academic level General, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate, Undergraduate DEWEY edition DC22

"By the measure of sheer density of history and drama, all other historical novels suffer by comparison to "Three Kingdoms, the great epic of the Chinese literary tradition. Roberts' rendition of the prose is lively and readable, but his translation of the poetry is a delight, capturing the flavour and pace, and sometimes even the rhyme, of the original."--"National Post (Canadian daily)

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