Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms
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.
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| Author | Feng Menglong |
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| Original title | 東周列國志 |
| Country | China |
| Language | Chinese |
| Subject | Ancient China |
| Genre | Fictionalized history |
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| Traditional Chinese | 東周列國志 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东周列国志 | ||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Đông Chu liệt quốc chí | ||||||
| Chữ Hán | 東周列國志 | ||||||
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| Hangul | 동주열국지 | ||||||
| Hanja | 東周列國志 | ||||||
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| Kanji | 東周列国志 | ||||||
| Hiragana | とうしゅうれっこくし | ||||||
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It is one of the best-known historical novels regarding ancient China. 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
- Pages from a printed edition of the novel Chronicles of the East Zhou Kingdoms
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