Derivatives

Yi Zhongtian on the Three Kingdoms

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A television lecture. Modern spoken retelling with historical comment. Not a chapter-by-chapter Romance, and not a full scholarly book.

The frame is historical. Character, dialogue, and scale are often rewritten by the novel.

Form: Television
Date: 2006
Creator: Yi Zhongtian / Lecture Room

It aired in 2006 on CCTV’s Lecture Room and spread widely. Yi Zhongtian separates some novel scenes from the Records, and he also adds his own judgments and metaphors.

Listeners can mistake a lecture’s line for Chen Shou’s sentence. This site still sends the reader back to the Records and the novel. The lecture is a twentieth-century derivative.