Three Kingdoms A Historical Novel

Author : Guanzhong Luo
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520344556

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Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo Pdf

“A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."—New York Times Book Review 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.

Author : Guanzhong Luo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520976665

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Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo Pdf

“A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."—New York Times Book Review 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.

Author : Kimberly Besio,Constantine Tung
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791480496

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Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture by Kimberly Besio,Constantine Tung Pdf

A multi-disciplinary exploration of China’s first great classical novel, Three Kingdoms, and its influence on Chinese culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9812295011

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Anonim Pdf

Author : Luo Guanzhong
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462914395

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The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger by Luo Guanzhong Pdf

This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers. The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half the population was killed or driven from their homes. readers will experience the loyalty and treachery, the brotherhood and rivalry of China's legendary heroes and villains during the most tumultuous period in Chinese history. Part myth, part reality, The Three Kingdoms is considered the most significant work in classic Chinese literature. Many Chinese people view it not only as a work of art but also as a moral guide to success in life and business. Foreigners often read it to gain insights into Chinese society and culture. From the saga of The Three Kingdoms, readers will learn how great warriors motivated their troops and enhanced their influence while disguising their weaknesses and turning the strengths of others against them. Complete with footnotes and a detailed character list, this readable new edition is sure to thrill today's readers from all over the world. Full of dramatic twists and turns, this third volume offers an exciting conclusion to the tale of Liu Bei, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu.

Author : Xiaofei Tian
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170920

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The Halberd at Red Cliff by Xiaofei Tian Pdf

"The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface.The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses."

Author : Guanzhong Luo
Publisher : Meng Zhang
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9787119005904

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Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo Pdf

A Chinese classic, portraying human ambition against a background of adventure and intrigue and set against historical events of the third century.

Author : Moss Roberts
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307760425

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Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Moss Roberts Pdf

This collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are familiar, but the characters we meet surprise us at every turn. For those who know and love the tales of the Grimms and Andersen, the universal themes of fairy tale literature emerge in these classic stories, but with a sophistication that is uniquely Chinese and altogether entrancing. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Author : Guanzhong Luo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520224787

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Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel by Guanzhong Luo Pdf

"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 "Moss Roberts's elegant and powerful translation of China's most important historical romance has a stunning directness that aptly conveys the dramatic boldness of the original episodic narrative. English readers may now finally understand why this 15th-century novel so strategically shaped the political world-view of generations of Chinese."—Frederic Wakeman, Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Author : Guanzhong Luo
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520224787

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Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel by Guanzhong Luo Pdf

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.

Author : Kuan-chung Lo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:729093232

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Three Kingdoms by Kuan-chung Lo Pdf

Author : Vālmīki,Ramesh Menon
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0865476950

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The Ramayana by Vālmīki,Ramesh Menon Pdf

One of the ancient world's great verse epics is retold in energetic English prose in this sparkling volume.

Author : Joan He
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250258595

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Strike the Zither by Joan He Pdf

A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms. The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions, and three warlordesses hope to claim the continent for themselves. But Zephyr knows it’s no contest. Orphaned at a young age, Zephyr took control of her fate by becoming the best strategist of the land and serving under Xin Ren, a warlordess whose loyalty to the empress is double-edged—while Ren’s honor draws Zephyr to her cause, it also jeopardizes their survival in a war where one must betray or be betrayed. When Zephyr is forced to infiltrate an enemy camp to keep Ren’s followers from being slaughtered, she encounters the enigmatic Crow, an opposing strategist who is finally her match. But there are more enemies than one—and not all of them are human. Featuring gorgeous map art by Anna Frohmann and black-and-white portraits by Tida Kietsungden, Strike the Zither is the first book in Joan He's riveting Kingdom of Three duology. Don't miss the epic conclusion in Sound the Gong!

Author : Luo Guanzhong
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026875383

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Traditional Chinese Edition) - Treasured Four Great Classical Novels Handed Down from Ancient China by Luo Guanzhong Pdf

Author : Luo Guanzhong
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462914388

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The Three Kingdoms, Volume 2: The Sleeping Dragon by Luo Guanzhong Pdf

This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers. The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half the population was killed or driven from their homes. readers will experience the loyalty and treachery, the brotherhood and rivalry of China's legendary heroes and villains during the most tumultuous period in Chinese history. Part myth, part reality, The Three Kingdoms is considered the most significant work in classic Chinese literature. Many Chinese people view it not only as a work of art but also as a moral guide to success in life and business. Foreigners often read it to gain insights into Chinese society and culture. From the saga of The Three Kingdoms, readers will learn how great warriors motivated their troops and enhanced their influence while disguising their weaknesses and turning the strengths of others against them. Complete with footnotes and a detailed character list, this readable new edition is sure to thrill today's readers from all over the world. This second volume introduces Liu Bei's greatest ally, his advisor Zhuge Lian--a master strategist whose inventiveness allowed Liu Bei to claim many victories in the never-ending battle for dominance during the Warring States period in Chinese history.