| The story begins when the emperor ,fearing uprisings by peasant rebels known as the yellow scarves,sends an urgent appeal toA~the provinces for popular support. In response, three young men——the aristocraticLiu Xuande, the fugitive Lord Guan, and the pig-butcher Zhang Feimeet to pledgeeternal brotherhood and fealty to their beleaguered government. From these events comes a chain of cause and consequence thatleads ultimately to the collapse of the Han. Moss Roberts s new translation providesfor the first time an authoritative, annotatedEnglish-language version of this great and enduring work of world literature. A Centennial BookLuo Guanzhong （1330？-1400？） was a novelistand dramatist who played an important rolein the development of Chinese popular fiction.Moss Roberts is Professor of Chinese at NewYork University. He has published anabridged translation of Three Kingdoms（Pantheon 1976） and is the translator of Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies （Pantheon1979）.John S. Service, the son of an American missionary, was born in China and was a Foreign Service officer there from 1933 to1945. He is a Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California,Berkeley, and is an authority on Chinese culture and politics. He is also the editor ofGolden Inches： the China Memoir of Grace Service （California 1989）. The empire, long divided, must unite ;long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been." With this characterization of theinevi table cycle of Chinese history, them on umental tale Three Kingdoms begins. Asimportant for Chinese culture as the Home ricepics have been for the West, this Mingdynasty masterpiece continues to be read and loved throughout China as well as in Japan,Korea, and Vietnam. The novel offers as tartling and unsparing view of how power iswielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways that Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day. Three Kingdoms portrays a fateful moment at the end of the Hart dynasty （206 B.C.-A.D.220） when the future of the Chinese empirelay in the balance. Writing more than amillennium later, Luo Guanzhong drew onoften-told tales of this turbulent period to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative ,whose characters display vivid in dividuality and epic grandeur. |
| 罗贯中（约1330—约1400），汉族，名本，字贯中，号湖海散人。山西太原人，一说钱塘（现在浙江杭州）或庐陵（现在江西吉安）人。元末明初著名小说家、戏曲家，是中国章回小说的鼻祖。一生著作颇丰，主要作品有：剧本《赵太祖龙虎风云会》《忠正孝子连环谏》、《三平章死哭蜚虎子》；小说《隋唐两朝志传》《残唐五代史演义》《三遂平妖传》《粉妆楼》、和施耐庵合著的《水浒传》、代表作《三国演义》等。 罗贯中生于元末明初的封建王朝时代。作为与“倡优”、“妓艺”为伍的戏曲平话作家，当时被视为勾栏瓦舍的下九流，正史不可能为他写经作传。惟一可看到的是一位明代无名氏编著的一本小册子《录鬼簿续编》，上写：“罗贯中，太原人，号湖海散人。与人寡合，乐府隐语，极为清新。与余为忘年交，遭时多故，天各一方。至正甲辰复会，别来又六十余年，竟不知其所终。” 但从罗贯中的传世之作《三国演义》中，体现出罗贯中的博大精深之才，经天纬地之气。他精通军事学、心理学、智谋学、公关学、人才学……如果没有超人的智慧，丰富的实践，执著的追求，何以能成为这般全才？他主张国家统一，热爱中华民族，弘扬民族传统美德，痛恨奸诈邪恶。 |
| List of Maps Acknowledgements Foreword By John S. Service Three Kingdoms A Historical Novel/1 Afterword: About Three Kingdoms By Moss Roberts/1459 Afterword: Notes/1528 Principal Characters in Three Kingdoms/1539 Chronology of Main Events in Three Kingdoms/1545 Titles, Terms, and Offices in Three Kingdoms/1551 Abbreviations/1555 Notes to Three Kingdoms/1557 |
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