A Collection of Materials on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Author: Zhu Yixuan (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: For the needs of teaching and scientific research, we have gradually organized and published the classical novel materials accumulated over the years. This volume is the "Collected Materials on Romance of the Three Kingdoms." The materials collected in this book are divided into five sections based on their content. The lower limit of the materials collected generally ends with the May Fourth Movement. A few entries, due to special needs, exceed this time frame. The arrangement of materials in each section is generally based on the chronological order of the authors. However, for some materials whose authors' birth and death dates are unknown, the order is determined based on their placement in the respective works and the sequence of other authors. For each entry, the book indicates the author, volume number, and the version used as a reference. For explanatory notes, parentheses and angle brackets are used; for corrections, square brackets are used. Since there is a vast amount of material related to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," this book, though titled a "collection," still requires selection. In practice, it is an edited selection. The influence on the materials collected includes both historical facts and other literary influences, and it cannot be considered solely the influence of the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." Because it is impossible to distinguish which influence it is, they are all included here.