Book Response Papers Assignment
This should be a one-half page (approximately 250-word) response. It should not be a summary, but an essay on your intellectual and emotional reactions to the book. This essay should be submitted before you continue on in the course in order to receive feedback that will help improve your future essays. Luo Guanzhong. Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Translated by Moss Roberts. Abridged Edition. University of California Press, 1999. [ISBN: 0520215850]. Three Kingdoms abridges an original work of over three thousand pages that happens to be one of China’s most famous novels ever. Set in the tumultuous Three Kingdoms period, its heroes and heroines became archetypes for generations of Chinese afterwards. To historians, the book nicely represents the other side of China—the side not shaped by Confucian ethics.
