Outlaws of the Marsh - 3-Vol Set Author:Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong, Sidney Shapiro (Translator) China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty [960 - 1127], and written during the Ming dynasty [1368-1644]. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band... more » together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them. Within this framework we find intrigue, adventure, murder, warfare, romance ... in a connected series of fascinating individual tales, told in the suspenseful manner of the traditional storyteller. Illustrated with 44 period brush paintings.
This hardcover edition was first published in 1980, and reprinted in 1995. All three volumes bear the same ISBN. Translation is by Sidney Shapiro [1915-2014], an American-born Chinese author and translator who lived in China from 1947 to 2014, and was one of very few naturalized citizens of the PRC.« less