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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.