Chroniken der Drei Reiche
The "Records of the Grand Historian", "Book of Han" and "Book of the Later Han", and the "Records of the Three Kingdoms" make up the four early historical texts of the "Twenty-Four Histories" canon. The "Records of the Three Kingdoms", also known as "Sanguozhi", contains 65 volumes and about 360,000 Chinese characters broken into three books. The "Book of Wei" contains 30 volumes, the "Book of Shu" 15 volumes, while the "Book of Wu" contains 20 volumes. Each volume is organised in the form of one or more biographies.