Kimberly Besio is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Colby College. Constantine Tung is Associate Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language and Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York and the coeditor (with Colin Mackerras) of Drama in the People's Republic of China, also published by SUNY Press.

Foreword: The Language of Values in the Ming Novel Three Kingdoms
Moss Roberts

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Kimberly Besio and Constantine Tung

Part I Three Kingdoms and Chinese Values

1. Cosmic Foreordination and Human Commitment: The Tragic Volition in Three Kingdoms
Constantine Tung

2. Essential Regrets: The Structure of Tragic Consciousnessin in Three Kingdoms
Dominic Cheung

3. The Notion of Appropriateness (Yi) in Three Kingdoms
Jiyuan Yu

Part II Three Kingdoms and Chinese History

4. The Beginning of the End: The Fall of the Han and the Opening of Three Kingdoms
George A. Hayden

5. Selected Historical Sources for Three Kingdoms: Reflections from Sima Guang's and Chen Liang's Reconstructions of Kongming's Story
Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

Part III Three Kingdoms in Chinese Drama and Art

6. Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei: Bowang shao tun and Competing Masculine Ideals within the Development of the Three Kingdoms Story Cycle
Kimberly Besio

7. The Theme of Three Kingdoms in Chinese Popular Woodblock Prints
Catherine Pagani

8. Three Kingdoms at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: The Shanghai Jingju Company's Cao Cao and Yang Xiu
Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak

Part IV Three Kingdoms in Contemporary East Asia

9. From Three Kingdoms the Novel to Three Kingdoms the Television Series: Gains, Losses, and Implications
Junhao Hong

10. The Reception and Place of Three Kingdoms in South Korea
Jinhee Kim

11. Studies of Three Kingdoms in the New Century
Bojun Shen
Translated by Kimberly Besio

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index