THREE KINGDOMS
A HISTORICAL NOVEL
AFTERWORD: ABOUT THREE KINGDOMS
By Moss Roberts
AFTERWORD: NOTES
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN THREE KINGDOMS
CHRONOLOGY OF MAIN EVENTS IN THREE KINGDOMS
TITLES, TERMS, AND OFFICES IN THREE KINGDOMS
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES TO THREE KINGDOMS
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 grew up in China and was a Foreign Service officer there from 1933 to 1945.
"A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history, which has
been translated into lively English by Moss Roberts. . . . The
subject matter of Three Kingdoms has long held an
extraordinary grip on the Chinese imagination. . . . 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*
"[Roberts] 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. . . . [He]
has succeeded . . . 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*
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