A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 2)

Luo Guanzhong (Author), Moss Roberts (Afterword)

Written on Boxing Day 2010.

Lwh, 31 July 2025

Subject: Re: San Guo (part 2)
Sent: Dec 26, 2010 3:15 PM

Sao guo yanyi is the common name for this novel. Yanyi means romance. Thus, the novel is titled Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

“The empire belongs to no one man but to all in the empire; he who has virtue shall possess it.”

The above motif permeates throughout the novel. Why?

Boxing Day 2010

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