Three Kingdoms

Name: Three Kingdoms
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ISBN: 9780520215856

ISBN-10: 0520215850

ISBN-13: 9780520215856

Edition: 1999 (Abridged)

Authors: Luo Guanzhong, Moss Roberts

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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. 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,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English