Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction xvii
6. Three Kingdoms and Chinese Value
7. Cosmic Foreordination and Human Commitment 3
8. Essential Regrets 15
9. The Notion of Appropriateness (Yi) in Three Kingdoms 27
10. Three Kingdoms and Chinese History
11. The Beginning of the End 43
12. Selected Historical Sources for Three Kingdoms 53
13. Three Kingdoms in Chinese Drama and Art
14. Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei 73
15. The Theme of Three Kingdoms in Chinese Popular Woodblock Prints 87
16. Three Kingdoms at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century 111
17. Three Kingdoms in Contemporary East Asia
18. From Three Kingdoms the Novel to Three Kingdoms the Television Series 125
19. The Reception and the Place of Three Kingdoms in South Korea 143
20. Studies of Three Kingdoms in the New Century 153
21. Bibliography 167
22. Contributors 179
23. Index 183