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I'm currently working on a new layout (we've been having this green one for years now). You can check the progress over at sanguozhi.wikia.com. Please let me know if you have any ideas or opinions. Thank you.

Game's been out for a while now. Who has played it? Or is anyone still playing it? Me liked it loads. Still playing it!

Dynasty Warriors 9 has been announced.

http://gematsu.com/2016/12/dynasty-warriors-9-announced

Who do you think will be the new characters? And who do you want?

I'm currently getting help with a translation for Sanguo zhi pinghua! I don't think this has ever been done before...

A partial translation of page 1 is already up: http://threekingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Sanguo_zhi_pinghua/page_1

I don't know if this'll ever complete... but maybe it inspires others to help or continue. Stay tuned!

Who else is watching this/has watched this? It's superb! Just finished this. Casting was soooo well done. Cao Cao, Zhou Yu, Sima Yi and Diaochan were my favs. Sun Quan nice too.

Red Cliff in this was better than in the movie by John Woo lolz.

I just been reading this on kma:

http://the-scholars.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23907

what caught me eye was the poster says "My general criticism of other translation projects and translation compilations is (1) the compilation of translations from multiple translators leads to a lack of consistency and forces readers to adjust to new conventions every time they switch between entries, ..."

that is a fair point, wouldn't ya agree? I think we should do somethin like that here, y'know, standardize certain translations. List them somewhere. Wadda ya think?

http://threekingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Sanguo_zhi_pinghua

I am recently reading this text. The Chinese texts can be found at several websites:

http://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=875919, http://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=502858, http://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=708583

http://open-lit.com/listbook.php?cid=13&gbid=136, http://open-lit.com/listbook.php?cid=14&gbid=136m http://open-lit.com/listbook.php?cid=15&gbid=136

http://www2.ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp/~nikaido/sanguo001.html, http://www2.ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp/~nikaido/sanguo002.html, http://www2.ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp/~nikaido/sanguo003.html

The last one even contain scanned pictures of the original manuscript.

I'd like to know which of all the Sanguo people are depicted in the 69 pages of the Sanguo zhi pinghua. Loads of them will probably feature the usual set of people (Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Cao Cao), but maybe here and there we will find some images of people who aren't depicted very often (already got a pic of Yellow Turban leader Zhang Liang for example). Anyone wanna help?

The images are all stored here: http://threekingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Category:SGZ_PH_Yuan_Dynasty_Illustrations

Quiz of December 18, 2012: Which historywork contains the biography of Sima Yi?

The correct answer was: Jin shu (History of Jin or Book of Jin), but it only received 30.77% of the votes.

The answer which received the most votes (53.85%) was: Sanguo zhi (Records of the Three Kingdoms), however since the Sima clan founded the Jin Dynasty the biography of Sima Yi was not included in the Sanguo zhi.

Some people also voted for Sima Yi biezhuan (15.38%), but (as far as I know) this work does not exist.

So, gotta say some women did some pretty nice things back in the day. While other women may not have done impressive stuff, but were still interesting people. Do any of you have any favorites among the ladies of these times?

ps: noticed we got a List of women of the Three Kingdoms. Still stubbed tho :( Let's update it shall we?

The List of cited texts in Records of the Three Kingdoms is still one of my fav on this site. Think we should do more o that. Don't the History of the Later Han got a versions with citations?

I'm trying to collect the names Rafe de Crespigny gives to the chapters in History of the Later Han. Of course not the simple titles such as "Biography of person X" but more specifically the chapters 76 to 90.

So far I found:

10B: Chapter on imperial women.

42: Chapter on the Fiefs of the Sons of Emperor Guangwu

67: Chapter on the Proscribed Faction (Chapter on Proscribed Party [GotS])

76: Chapter on the Lenient Officials (Chapter on Benevolent Officials [GotS])
77: Chapter on the Stern Officials
78: Chapter on the Eunuchs
79: Chapter on the Confucian Scholars

80: Chapter on Literary Men
81: Chapter on the Men of Unusual Conduct
82: Chapter on Diviners and Magicians [GotS]

85: Chapter on the Eastern Barbarians
86: Chapter on the Southern and Southwestern Barbarians

88: Chapter on the Western Regions
89: Account of the Southern Xiongnu

From any of the RTK's, do you have favourite portrait(s)?

Mine:
Cao Cao
Cao Cao from RTKXII

Yuan Shu
Yuan Shu from RTKXII

They're both very fitting, especially Shu.

, becouse

Hello :)

I want to ask, how to become an emperor at ROTK XII . I have reached more 5000 fame & I have the imperial seal too, still I can't become an emperor ... tq for the information :)

Right now I categorize them all like this: http://threekingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Historical_Images

abbreviation of the title, and then the dynasty during which it was released.

Would it not be better to make a folder per dynasty and then another folder for the book from which the images were taken?

---> Tang Dynasty Illustrations ----> Yan Liben paintings

---> Yuan Dynasty Illustrations ----> Sanfen shilüe illustrations

                       ----> Sanguo zhi pinghua illustrations
                       ----> Hua Guan Suo zhuan illustrations

---> Ming Dynasty Illustrations ----> Sanguo zhi tongsu yanyi illustrations

                       ----> Ye Fengchun Sanguo yanyi illustrations

---> Qing Dynasty Illustrations ----> Zengxiang quantu Sanguo yanyi illustrations

                       ----> "that other Qing SGYY" illustrations

And what to do with foreign art? Like Yoshitoshi's stuff. It was released at the time of Qing, but not in China.