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=Historiography of the Three Kingdoms=

Modern scholarship

 * china: mao-era marxist interpretations and preference for cao cao
 * japan
 * western sinology: mendoza to crespigny https://web.archive.org/web/20220121092656/https://www.gamersky.com/zl/201801/1005993.shtml

Background

 * hold of the ashikaga shogunate was never that great, daimyo structure, feuding feudal lords already before the onin war

Mobilization

 * rise of the ashigaru

New weaponry and tactics

 * takeda cavalry
 * firearms, the "asian military revolution"
 * Japanese castles and siege

The role of religion

 * Buddhism and Ikko ikki
 * Christianity

Gekokujō

 * take existing wiki

The maritime world

 * Piracy
 * Murakami
 * warfare in the islands, the seas, and onto china

Historiography

 * Edo period fiction (gunki monogatari) and bushido

Cultural legacy
=Textual history of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms=

Three Kingdoms historiography and early folk traditions

 * records of the three kingdoms, annotations, zizhi tongjian
 * shift of views during the song dynasty
 * worship of guan yu, zaju

Precursors to the novel

 * Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language (Sanguozhi Pinghua)

Luo Guanzhong

 * Luo Guanzhong's version, delve into his life and motivations
 * Liu Bei as a Mencian paragon as a foil to contemporary Ming absolutism (themes)

Mao Zonggang

 * mao lun and mzg, the trend of commentaries and dufa

Background

 * role of eunuchs, confucian opposition to them and the effect on their representation
 * the later han eunuch - Consort kin power struggle
 * Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions
 * Ten Attendants