Foreword : the language of values in the Ming novel Three kingdoms / Moss Roberts
Introduction / Kimberly Besio and Constantine Tung
Cosmic foreordination and human commitment : the tragic volition in Three kingdoms / Constantine Tung
Essential regrets : the structure of tragic consciousness in Three kingdoms / Dominic Cheung
The notion of appropriateness (yi) in Three kingdoms / Jiyuan Yu
The beginning of the end : the fall of the Han and the opening of Three kingdoms / George A. Hayden
Selected historical sources for Three kingdoms : reflections from Sima Guang's and Chen Liang's reconstructions of Kongming's story / Hoyt Cleveland Tillman
Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei : Bowang Shao Tun and competing masculine ideals within the development of the Three kingdoms story cycle / Kimberly Besio
The theme of Three kingdoms in Chinese popular woodblock prints / Catherine Pagani
Three kingdoms at the dawn of the twenty-first century : the Shanghai Jingju Company's Cao Cao and Yang Xiu / Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak
From Three kingdoms the novel to Three kingdoms the television series : gains, losses, and implications / Junhao Hong
The reception and the place of the Three kingdoms in South Korea / Jinhee Kim
Studies of Three kingdoms in the new century / Bojun Shen, translated by Kimberly Besio.