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...
Well that was something.
Read it in Chinese many years ago.
What I said when I started this was: "Maybe right out of college shouldn't be the time to jump into a long 14th century epic, but it seems like a good book to come back to now and then in the background while I read faster things too."Well, I may have been a bit optimistic. While I enjoyed what I re...
I've had this book for a couple of years. I kept meaning to read it, but it never got far enough up my TBR stack.Until I saw Red Cliff. Admittedly, the shortened international version.Man, that movie is great. Go see it. Now!(Strange how my top three movies are all international and not US made)...
Around the time the earth cooled and life spread across the continents, I was a huge fan of the game Destiny of an Emperor for the NES. Chinese generals with names I couldn't pronounce duking it out for the fate of China enthralled me.Years later, I was thinking fondly of the game and decided to in...
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