Kingdoms in Peril: A Novel of the Ancient Chinese World at War

This abridged edition introduces readers to the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.

One of the great works of Chinese literature, beloved in East Asia but virtually unknown in the West, Kingdoms in Peril is an epic historical novel charting the five hundred years leading to the unification of China under the rule of the legendary First Emperor. Writing some fourteen hundred years after the unification, the Ming—era author Feng Menglong drew on a vast trove of literary...