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It should delight and captivate Western readers for many more years to come."-Anthony C. Moss Roberts's translation, the first complete rendering in English, is one of surpassing excellence and impeccable scholarship. 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. in creating an absorbing version of the book that is great fun to read." - China Review International "Roberts has managed to achieve a rare feat in producing a translation that is not only a fine example of meticulous scholarly translation, but that is at the same time also a highly entertaining novel which should be a delight to readers with or without any prior knowledge of Chinese literature." - Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews" The Three Kingdoms gives us The Iliad of China. No less an authority than Mao Zedong asserted that when he set out on the campaigns that would ultimately bring him to power, Three Kingdoms was the book he valued most." - New York Times Book Review " is the perfect author to present a balanced combination of the most famous, exciting, and beautiful scenes, along with those parts that are necessary for following the plot. The subject matter of Three Kingdoms has long held an extraordinary grip on the Chinese imagination. Reviews "A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history, which has been translated into lively English by Moss Roberts. The University of California Press is pleased to make the complete and unabridged translation available again. 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.
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. 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. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing interest to historians, poets, and dramatists. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 b.c.-a.d.
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