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Journey to the West 'is the first ancient Chinese romantic episodic novel about gods and demons. The earliest version of 'Journey to the West' was 'Newly Engraved Official Board Characters of Journey to the West' by Shide Hall in Jinling in the...
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms or Popular Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms) is a long-form historical romance novel written by the late Yuan and early Ming dynasty novelist Luo Guanzhong. It is based...
The Dream of Red Mansion, an ancient Chinese long fictional novel in the chapter-style genre, is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The widely circulated version consists of 120 chapters, with the first 80 chapters...
The Water Margin 'is a long novel written by Shi Nai'an in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties (most of the existing editions are signed by Shi Nai'an or Luo Guanzhong, or both). It is the first episodic novel written in vernacular Chinese in...
