Three kingdoms : a historical novel / attributed to Luo Guanzhong ; translated from the Chinese with afterword by Moss Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luo, Guanzhong, approximately 1330-approximately 1400.

Contributor:

Roberts, Moss, 1937-

JSTOR (Online Service)

Standardized Title:

San guo zhi yan yi. Selections. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--Three kingdoms, 220-265--Fiction.

China.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 489 pages) : map

Edition:

Abridged edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing : Foreign Languages Press ; Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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. The novel offers an 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Luo, Guanzhong, approximately 1330-approximately 1400. San kuo chih yen i. English. Selections. Three kingdoms.

ISBN:

9780520957879

0520957873

Publisher Number:

99981858928

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.