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Three Kingdoms, Part Two Paperback - 2004

by Guanzhong Luo; Moss Roberts (Translator); Foreword by John S. Service


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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.

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"The Three Kingdoms gives us The Iliad of China. First of the five great works of traditional prose fiction, this master narrative transforms history into epic and has thereby educated and entertained readers of five centuries with unforgettable exemplars of martial and civic virtue, of personal fidelity and political treachery. Moss Roberts's translation, the first complete rendering in English, is one of surpassing excellence and impeccable scholarship. It should delight and captivate Western readers for many more years to come."--Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago

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  • Title Three Kingdoms, Part Two
  • Author Guanzhong Luo; Moss Roberts (Translator); Foreword by John S. Service
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Pages 1096
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 2004-06-14
  • Features Bibliography, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520225039 / 0520225031
  • Weight 2.13 lbs (0.97 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7 x 1.5 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
  • Library of Congress subjects History, China
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004043994
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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.
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