The Battle of Chibi (Red Cliffs) (eBook)

Selected and Translated from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Hock G. Tjoa (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | 1., Second edition
330 Seiten
Sleeping Dragon Books (Verlag)
978-0-9973067-1-2 (ISBN)

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Note on Reading this Book
Chinese Names and Spelling
Main Characters

Prologue

Part One: The End of the Han Dynasty

1: THE HAN DYNASTY DECAYS: REBELS

2: DYNASTIC DECAY: EUNUCHS

3: DYNASTIC DECAY: WARLORDS

4: SETBACKS

5: DEATH OF SUN JIAN

6: DEATH OF SUN CE

7: THE BATTLE OF GUANDU

8: LIKE FISH SEEKING WATER

9: LIMITED OBJECTIVES

10: JINGZHOU

11: CAO MARCHES SOUTHWARDS

Part Two: The Battle

12: DEBATE IN JIANGDONG

13: ZHOU YU PROVOKED

14: TESTING THE WATERS

15: BORROWING ARROWS

16: DECEPTION

17: NAVAL SKIRMISHES

18: WIND AND FIRE

19: HONOR AND MERCY

Part Three: The Aftermath

20: A BRIDE AS BAIT

21: LOVE AND WAR

22: THE TONGQIAO PALACE

23. FUNERAL ORATION

Suggestions for further reading
The Author
SleepingDragonBooks
Excerpt from Agamemnon Must Die
Excerpt from The Ingenious Judge Dee, A Play
Excerpt from The Chinese Spymaster
MAPS:
1. The Han Empire ca. 189 (de Crespiny)
2. Han dynastic decay: Warlords (de Crespiny)
3. The battle of Chibi (de Crespiny)
4. China under the Three Kingdoms (ChinaHistory
Forum.com)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: ancient China • Classic • historical fiction
• ISBN-10: 0-9973067-1-8 / 0997306718
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9973067-1-2 / 9780997306712