page_title: Romance of the Three Kingdoms
section_title: Translations
hierarchical_section_title: Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Translations
caption_attribution_description: Bahasa Indonesia: Manuskrip Tionghoa-Jawa berisi terjemahan "Roman Tiga Kerajaan" (三國演義), yang ditulis sebagai "Sam Kok" dari pelafalan Hokkien "Sam-kok-ián-gī".English: Translation of "Romance of Three Kingdoms" (三國演義) in Javanese script, here transcribed as "Sam Kok" from Hokkien pronunciation "Sam-kok-ián-gī".
context_page_description: Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a 14th-century historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong. It is set in the turbulent years towards the end of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history, starting in 169 AD and ending with the reunification of the land in 280.
  The story – part historical, part legend, and part mythical – romanticises and dramatises the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, who tried to replace the dwindling Han dynasty or restore it. While the novel follows hundreds of characters, the focus is mainly on the three power blocs that emerged from the remnants of the Han dynasty, and would eventually form the three states of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. The novel deals with the plots, personal and military battles, intrigues, and struggles of these states to achieve dominance for almost 100 years.
  Romance of the Three Kingdoms is acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature; it has a total of 800,000 words and nearly a thousand dramatic characters in 120 chapters.
context_section_description: The book was translated into Manchu as ᡳᠯᠠᠨ
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  ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝ Möllendorff: ilan gurun-i bithe. During the Qing dynasty, Chinese military manuals were eagerly translated by the Manchus, who were also attracted to the military content in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
caption: A translated version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Javanese, from early 20th-century Indonesia
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