TY - GEN T1 - Kingdoms in Peril : A Novel of the Ancient Chinese World at War. A1 - Milburn, Olivia LA - English PP - Berkeley PB - University of California Press YR - 2022 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1296424938 AB - This abridged edition introduces readers to the power and drama of this electrifying classic Chinese novel. One of the great works of Chinese literature, beloved in East Asia but virtually unknown in the West, Kingdoms in Peril is an epic historical novel charting the five hundred years leading to the unification of China under the rule of the legendary First Emperor. Writing some fourteen hundred years later, the Ming-era author Feng Menglong drew on a vast trove of literary and historical documents to compose a gripping narrative account of how China came to be China. Here, translated into. OP - 372 NO - Description based upon print version of record. CN - PL2698.F4 H813 2022 SN - 9780520380523 SN - 0520380525 SN - 9780520380516 KW - China : History : Zhou dynasty, 1122-221 B.C. : Fiction. KW - Chine : Histoire : 1122-221 av. J.-C. (Dynastie des Zhou) : Romans, nouvelles, etc. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General. KW - China KW - 1122-221 B.C. KW - Ancient Chinese historical novel. KW - Eastern Zhou dynasty. KW - First Emperor of Qin. KW - Ming literature. KW - The Art of War. KW - Yellow River valley. KW - assassin story. KW - civil war. KW - complex women characters. KW - drama. KW - epic. KW - palace intrigue stories. KW - power. KW - Electronic books. KW - Fiction KW - History ER -