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A Pillar of Chinese Literature

The world of literature is brimming with classical works that have developed into representatives of their origins. Great Britain has Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Spain has Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra’s Don Quixote and Japan has Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji. For China, four literary classics, collectively referred to as Four Great Classic Novels, have been heralded by sinologists as the pinnacles of Chinese literature.

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Of pre-modern Chinese fiction, these four canons are the most extensively studied, and the most widely read. Their influences are prevalent and their impact still resonate in the contemporary. When the east slowly opened to the west, coupled with the ensuing globalization, these four classics were the representatives of Chinese literature, literary doors that introduced the west to Chinese society, culture, and history.

Of these four novels, Luo Guanzhong’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms