Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a 14th-century Chinese historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong. Its narrative covers events from the decline of the Han dynasty and the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the reunification of China under the Western Jin in 280, drawing on Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms, Pei Songzhi's annotations, earlier chronicles, and popular storytelling traditions. It combines historical figures and events with fictional scenes, speeches, and supernatural episodes, giving particular moral and political weight to Liu Bei and Shu Han while following the rivalry among Shu, Cao Wei, and Eastern Wu. Acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classic Novels of Chinese literature, it runs to about 800,000 words and nearly a thousand characters across 120 chapters, and its literary influence in East Asia has been compared to that of Shakespeare on English literature.
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