Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms information
Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms
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Author
Feng Menglong
Original title
東周列國志
Country
China
Language
Chinese
Subject
Ancient China
Genre
Fictionalized history
Media type
Print
Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
東周列國志
Simplified Chinese
东周列国志
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Dōngzhōu Lièguó Zhì
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet
Đông Chu liệt quốc chí
Chữ Hán
東周列國志
Korean name
Hangul
동주열국지
Hanja
東周列國志
Japanese name
Kanji
東周列国志
Hiragana
とうしゅうれっこくし
Transcriptions
Romanization
Toshurekkokushi
The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: 东周列国志; traditional Chinese: 東周列國志; pinyin: Dōngzhōu Lièguó Zhì) is a Chinese historical novel in 108 chapters written by Feng Menglong in the late Ming dynasty. Set in the Eastern Zhou dynasty, the novel starts from the Chinese kingdom beginning to break apart into smaller states and ends with the first unification of the land accomplished by Qin Shi Huang.
It is one of the best-known historical novels regarding ancient China.[1] The novel based its sources from classic texts such as the Zuo Tradition and the Records of the Grand Historian and some of the sacred classic books of China such as the Book of Rites and the Classic of Poetry.
Pages from a printed edition of the novel Chronicles of the East Zhou Kingdoms
Pages from a printed edition of the novel Chronicles of the East Zhou Kingdoms
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^Li, Wai-Yee (2010). "Full-Length Vernacular Fiction". In Mair, Victor H. (ed.). The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 625. ISBN 978-0-231-10984-0.
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