Author: Han, ShanKe & Zhou, Dahuang
A Brief Introduction
Han Shanke’s new book, the history of the Three Kingdoms, was originally called Anti Three Kingdoms. It is a novel that is quite different from the famous Chinese novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. This book does not criticize the fiction of the plot of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms but sets different plots with unique ideas, which gives a unique imagination and interpretation of the development of history. Moreover, this book also shows readers another side of the Three Kingdoms era in China.
This book starts from the 36th chapter of the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, “Xu Shu enters the garrison base of Cao Cao”. In Zhou Dahuang’s works, Liu Bei had three major military counsellors who were Kong Ming, Pang Tong and Xu Shu. In the novel, Pang Tong revives. Instead of working in Cao Cao’s military base , Xu Shu worked full-time in Liu Bei’s base.
With the development of the story, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong were all the great generals who can be on their own. They had won every war when Liu Bei died, Liu Chan, his son, was assassinated instead of being a national slave, so the descendants of Liu family had the chance to revive the Han Dynasty.
Currently, some scholars believe that the book “let a group of historical heroes to fulfill the dream of national unity”. This book reposes the chivalrous dream of Chinese literati for thousands of years.
About the authors
Han Shanke, a scholar of literature and history, a freelance writer, is excellent at writing history with sharp observation and thoughts. The style of his works is intelligent, creative, and full of vivid descriptions, which is deeply loved by his readers.
Han Shanke’s best-selling book, Zhang Tingyu: the First Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty, was listed as a recommended book in the exhibition of incorruptible documents of the alliance of four provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui.
He authorized the Central People’s radio station to produce radio plays. Some of his works was published in Hong Kong and Taiwan and overseas.
Zhou Dahuang (1886-1951), a native of Qidong, Hunan Province. He studied in Chuanshan academy and Hunan Public School of law and politics in his early years.
Zhou Dahuang , Yang Du and Qi Baishi were the same disciples of Wang Kaiyun, a great Confucian. In the early years of the Republic of China, he served as a judge. Furthermore, He was once recommended as the Secretary of Tianjin higher prosecutor’s office.
Zhou Dahuang was engaged in writing all his life, and had been editor of Beijing Morning Post for several years. He completed the book “Jin GangZuan Biography”, which was well received by the drama circle.
Zhou successively served as the chief writer (1924) of Zhengyi newspaper and Minde newspaper, and served as the counselor of three local warlords. Zhou’s novel “Different history of the Three Kingdoms”, formerly known as the Anti Three Kingdoms, was first written in 1919, and had been serialized in the people’s morality daily for three years since 1924. In 1930, it was collected and published by Shanghai Qingyun book company. There were eight volumes in paperback. Each time there were illustrations, a total of 60.