However, since the state of Shu lacked an official history bureau, the Book of Shu in the Records was composed by Chen Shou himself based on his earlier personal notes about events in Shu and other primary sources he collected, such as his previously compiled writings of Zhuge Liang. Chen Shou used these texts as the foundation of the Records of the Three Kingdoms. Additionally, Yu Huan had completed his privately compiled history of Wei, the Weilüe. Prior to the Jin dynasty, both the states of Cao Wei and Wu has already composed their own official histories: the Book of Wei by Wang Chen, Xun Yi, and Ruan Ji and the Book of Wu by Wei Zhao, Hua He, Xue Ying, Zhou Zhao ( 周昭), and Liang Guang ( 梁廣). After the Conquest of Wu by Jin in 280, his work received the acclaim of senior minister Zhang Hua. After the Conquest of Shu by Wei in 263, he became an official historian under the government of the Jin dynasty, and created a history of the Three Kingdoms period.
The author Chen Shou was born in present-day Nanchong, Sichuan, then in the state of Shu Han. Each volume is organised in the form of one or more biographies. The Book of Wei, Book of Shu, and Book of Wu receive 30 volumes, 15 volumes, and 20 volumes respectively. The Records of the Three Kingdoms consist of 65 volumes divided into three books-one per eponymous kingdom-totaling around 360,000 Chinese characters in length. The Book of Han and Records of the Three Kingdoms join the original Han-era universal history Records of the Grand Historian to constitute the first three entries in the Twenty-Four Histories canon, with each work cementing the new genre's literary and historiographical qualities as established by Sima Qian. While large subsections of the work have been selected and translated into English, the entire corpus has yet to receive an unabridged English translation. The Records of the Three Kingdoms is the main source of information for the 14th century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, considered to be one of the four great novels written in Literary Chinese. Written by Chen Shou after the Jin dynasty reunited China in the third century, the work compiles the political, social, and military events within rival states Cao Wei, Shu Han and Eastern Wu into a single text organized by individual biography. It is widely regarded as the official and authoritative source text for these periods. 184–220 CE) and the following Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE). The Records of the Three Kingdoms ( traditional Chinese: 三國志 simplified Chinese: 三国志 pinyin: Sānguó zhì), is a Chinese imperial history that covers the end of the Han dynasty ( c.
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