Romance of the Three Kingdoms(Illustrated Collector's Edition)/三国演义

The classic Mao's Commentary Edition of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", featuring authoritative annotations by experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Includes hundreds of explanatory notes, phonetic notations for difficult characters, ensuring an accessible reading experience. Beautifully presented with forty finely crafted illustrative inserts.

经典毛评本《三国演义》，中国社科院专家权威校注，数百条注释、疑难字注音，无障碍阅读，四十张绣像版插图精美呈现！

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, its full title being Popular Romance of the Records of the Three Kingdoms. Authored by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, it holds the distinction of being China's first full-length historical novel written in chapters. Centered on warfare, the narrative chronicles the political and military struggles among the three political powers of Wei, Shu, and Wu. The story unfolds in five major parts: the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Dong Zhuo's tyranny, the contention among warlords, the tripartite standoff, and the eventual unification under Jin. Against an expansive backdrop, it stages wave after wave of surging, majestic battle scenes and successfully brings to life nearly five hundred characters. Among them, figures such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei have become enduringly popular. The work's refusal to frame historical accounts through a simple friend-or-foe lens has exerted a profound and lasting influence on subsequent generations.

In 1953, during the early years of the Writers Publishing House, among its very first publications were these four classical masterpieces: Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Journey to the West. These editions are among the earliest published in New China and remain some of the most influential. For this four-volume series, we have selected the editions that best capture the essence of each work: Dream of the Red Chamber (Cheng Yi Ben), Water Margin (Rong Yu Tang Ben), Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Mao's Commentary Edition), and Journey to the West (Shi De Tang Ben). Experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have been invited to meticulously proofread and annotate the texts, and nearly two hundred finely crafted illustrations have been carefully chosen, striving to provide readers with the definitive editions for their personal libraries.

《三国演义》是中国古典四大名著之一，全名为《三国志通俗演义》。作者是元末明初小说家罗贯中，是中国第一部长篇章回体历史演义小说，以描写战争为主，反映了魏、蜀、吴三个政治集团之间的政治和军事斗争，大致分为黄巾之乱、董卓之乱、群雄逐鹿、三国鼎立、三国归晋五大部分。在广阔的背景下，上演了一幕幕波澜起伏、气势磅礴的战争场面，成功刻画了近五百个人物形象，其中曹操、刘备、孙权、诸葛亮、周瑜、关羽、张飞等人物形象脍炙人口，不以敌我叙述方式对待各方的历史描述，对后世产生了极其深远的影响。

作家出版社在1953年建社初期，最早出版的图书中就有《红楼梦》《水浒传》《三国演义》《西游记》四部古典名著。是新中国以来出版最早、也是最有影响的版本之一。该四部名著，我们从繁多的版本中，选择了最能体现著作精髓的版本，分别为：《红楼梦》（程乙本）、《水浒传》（容与堂本）、《三国演义》（毛评本）、《西游记》（世德堂本），邀请中国社科院专家精心勘校、注释，精选近二百张绣像插图，力求成为读者阅读的最佳版本。