I had heard about Rot3K primarily through early Nintendo games. Thank you for explaining it in a more brief and concise format (as opposed to your recent post on the original LOTR).
I’m guessing my LOTR post wasn’t a favourite of yours? lol I usually do LOTR as this stack is about Fantasy & Medieval lit.
That said, I plan to continue to do write-ups like this of Chinese history, Japanese history and Korean, and their epic novels and poems right alongside the Homeric & Virgilian epics and the Medieval epics of Europe. I love this stuff a lot more than doing pop culture essays.
I first came across ROTK when playing Dynasty Warriors 2 at a friend's house. I bought that game, and every subsequent DW game, and then in secondary school had the opportunity to learn Mandarin (even after 5 years I struggled and now, many years later I know almost nothing of the language though I do want to try again). Because my school taught Mandarin our library had copies of Chinese literature, namely Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the Beijing Foreign Press version which is unabridged with footnotes. I read it multiple times as a teenager and plan to re-read it next year, along with some other epics like Journey to the West which in the past I have only managed to get about a 1/3 of the way through the unabridged version.
Hope you continue this essay series as the little anecdotes about the history, Emperor Ling and his gardens for example, are fascinating.
I plan to, I’m hoping to have another article done once I finish the Lord of Bones essay. I’m hoping to get the first analysis of Journey to the West done for Sunday and then get back to RoTK.
I gotta admit I tried learning Mandarin failed after I first failed to learn Japanese properly.
I took a couple of modules of Japanese at university and struggled immensely (to be fair I was actually studying Philosophy and Anthropology and taking Japanese as a bit of fun).
I see, I was studying history and english and took the Japanese in the hopes to go for a masters in the topic only to fail at the language lol (I passed each course but failed to grasp the langue).
My first exposure to the Three Kingdoms setting was through John Woo's epic film Red Cliff.
I’ve a copy of the movie but yet to watch it, how is it?
My first exposure was the book (parts of it at least) then Dynasty Warriors 7 and then I read all about the history. I love it.
It's quite good! I'd highly recommend it. It takes some liberties with the source material, but it's a solid war film, well presented.
Okay I’ll watch it then!
I had heard about Rot3K primarily through early Nintendo games. Thank you for explaining it in a more brief and concise format (as opposed to your recent post on the original LOTR).
I’m guessing my LOTR post wasn’t a favourite of yours? lol I usually do LOTR as this stack is about Fantasy & Medieval lit.
That said, I plan to continue to do write-ups like this of Chinese history, Japanese history and Korean, and their epic novels and poems right alongside the Homeric & Virgilian epics and the Medieval epics of Europe. I love this stuff a lot more than doing pop culture essays.
It wasn’t a bad article, but it was way too long for a single posting. Putting it into parts when it’s that long would help a lot.
Fair point, I’ll bear that in mind for the future.
I first came across ROTK when playing Dynasty Warriors 2 at a friend's house. I bought that game, and every subsequent DW game, and then in secondary school had the opportunity to learn Mandarin (even after 5 years I struggled and now, many years later I know almost nothing of the language though I do want to try again). Because my school taught Mandarin our library had copies of Chinese literature, namely Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the Beijing Foreign Press version which is unabridged with footnotes. I read it multiple times as a teenager and plan to re-read it next year, along with some other epics like Journey to the West which in the past I have only managed to get about a 1/3 of the way through the unabridged version.
Hope you continue this essay series as the little anecdotes about the history, Emperor Ling and his gardens for example, are fascinating.
I plan to, I’m hoping to have another article done once I finish the Lord of Bones essay. I’m hoping to get the first analysis of Journey to the West done for Sunday and then get back to RoTK.
I gotta admit I tried learning Mandarin failed after I first failed to learn Japanese properly.
I took a couple of modules of Japanese at university and struggled immensely (to be fair I was actually studying Philosophy and Anthropology and taking Japanese as a bit of fun).
Look forward to the articles!
I see, I was studying history and english and took the Japanese in the hopes to go for a masters in the topic only to fail at the language lol (I passed each course but failed to grasp the langue).
I look forward to you reading the article.