25+ Essential Books for a Broader Understanding of China
Some of the Best Chinese Books to Explore the Many Facets of China. Two Millennia of Storytelling: Essential Picks from Chinese Literature. China’s narrative, spanning … Read more
A Third Century Chinese Account of the Roman Empire
Roman life is described in translations of The Weilue, a 3rd-century Chinese historical text. Mutual knowledge between the Chinese and Roman empires was very limited. Only … Read more
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Mao’s Global Order of Tripolarity
This book examines the impact of classical Chinese literature on Mao Zedong’s political rhetoric and his vision of a tripolar geopolitical landscape at the peak … Read more
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (with footnotes and maps)
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide…” The Han dynasty … Read more
Guan-Yu the Hero
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a classic historical novel of enormous influence, is considered to be one of the four great Chinese classic novels. Written … Read more
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
In 220 EC, the 400-year-old rule of the mighty Han dynasty came to an end and three kingdoms contested for control of China. Liu Pei, … Read more
