Three kingdoms
Subtitle: a historical novel
By: attributed to Luo Guanzhong ; translated from the Chinese with afterword by Moss Roberts.
Contributors: Roberts, Moss, 1937-
Edition: Abridged ed.
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press; University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Beijing; Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: China -- History -- Three Kingdoms, 220-265 -- Fiction.
Description: "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."--Page 2 of cover.