The Chronicle of the Warring States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty

Author: Qing Cai Yuanfang
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
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The Story of the Warring States is a long historical novel in the form of chapters, consisting of 108 chapters, and is one of the most widely circulated and influential historical romance novels after Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was a legendary era. Over the five hundred years of chaos, the dominance, conspiracies, political maneuvering, and struggles that filled it were bewildering and deeply influenced the course of Chinese politics, society, and culture for thousands of years. The diverse figures of the Eastern Zhou became the source material for various folk tales, operas, and novels, and The Story of the Warring States is deeply rooted in this tradition.
The creation of The Story of the Warring States involved the adaptation and compilation by several renowned authors. The Pinghua Chronicles of the States, written by Yu Shaoyu in the mid-Ming Dynasty, served as its prototype. Later, the great popular literature master Feng Menglong adapted it into The New Chronicles of the States...