Borrowing Arrows

by Hock G. Tjoa

The Battle of Chibi attempts to make accessible one of the most beloved of Chinese classics, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The selections have been freshly translated, the 120 original chapters reduced to 23 and the narrative given a focus. Like the original classic, however, The Battle of Chibi includes both strategies and clear notions of values as well as exciting battle scenes.


Borrowing Arrows is an account of one of the most famous episodes from the Romance and includes not only the cleverness and cunning that made it a favorite of street entertainers but also the display of honor and wisdom that gave it its appeal to generations of readers.

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First published January 31, 2013

About the author

Hock G. Tjoa was born to Chinese parents and studied history at Brandeis and Harvard. He taught European history and Asian political thought at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He is married and lives with his family in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California.

He published in 2010 The Battle of Chibi (Selections from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms) that he had translated, and in 2011, Heaven is High and the Emperor Far Away, A Play that he translated and adapted from Lao She's Teahouse. Both are part of his project to make more widely known traditional Chinese values. In 2013, he published The Chinese Spymaster and The Ingenious Judge Dee, a Play.

Agamemnon Must Die was published (see reviews) in 2014.

Another volume in The Chinese Spymaster series, The Ninja and theDiplomat was published in 2015.

I struggle to bring the Book of Job to life for my current writing project.