Romance of the Three Kingdoms (In Our Time)
1370 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of Chinese literature. Written 600 years ago, it is an historical novel that tells the story of a tumultuous period in Chinese history, the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Partly historical and partly legend, it recounts the fighting and scheming of
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Around 1370
- Black Death (1346)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Zheng He (1371)