Guanzhong Luo 
Three Kingdoms 
A Historical Novel

“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.

表中的内容

Foreword to the Abridged Edition by Moss Roberts

Preface to the Abridged Edition 

Acknowledgments for the Unabridged Edition

Foreword to the Unabridged Edition by John S. Service


Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel 


Afterword: About Three Kingdoms by Moss Roberts

List of Principal Characters 

Chronology of Main Events

关于作者

Moss Roberts is Professor of Chinese at New York University. He translated Dao De Jing and an unabridged edition of Three Kingdoms and is the translator and editor of Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies.