The long-lived Han dynasty is finally succumbing to effects of a weak Emperor and corrupt government that is cause injustice throughout China resulting peasant revolts while nobles strive to reform the court. Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, probably, dramatizes the 112-year history of the end of t...
This was a thoroughly interesting novel. I had a brief book-stential crisis in the middle when I tried to wrap my head around the multiple versions of this book even in its original language, as well the mystique surrounding the identity of the author. I quickly got over it though and settled quite ...
The Shuihu Zhuan (apparently, this means something like Water Margin, but it has been translated into English under many other titles) is accounted to be one of the great classic Chinese novels. I chose to read this one first because it was not written in classical Chinese (so it was not primarily f...
Read it in Chinese many years ago.