What do the three readings tell us about role models in Japan (Genji), China (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), and South and Southeast Asia (Ramayana)? How do they depict the ideal rulers, ideal male and female and ideal values?

What do the three readings tell us about role models in Japan (Genji), China (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), and South and Southeast Asia (Ramayana)? How do they depict the ideal rulers, ideal male and female and ideal values? Order Description Use the 3 resources below 1. Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1977) translated by Edward G. Seidensticker, chapter 1, “The Paulownia Court”, pp. 3-10. 2. Lo Kuan-Chung, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, (Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959), pp. 1-10) (chapter 1 “Feast in the Garden of Peaches: Brotherhood Sworn: Slaughter of rebels: The Brothers Heroes”). 3.R. K. Narayan, The Ramayana, A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1972), pp. 161-2 (chapter 13, “Interlude”).