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Three Kingdoms

A Historical Novel. Abridged Edition

By Guanzhong Luo

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| Paperback | 9780520215856

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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 toContinue

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.
This abridged edition is particularly useful for undergraduate courses. For the complete text, see the unabridged edition, now available in two parts: Part One; Part Two

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 504 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0520215850
  • ISBN-13: 9780520215856
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Pub date: Sep 30, 1999
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages 简体书
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