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Chinese Literature - Novels and fiction 《The Romance of the Three Kindoms》 《The Story by the Water Margin 》 《The Dream of the Red Chamber 》 《Journey to the West 》 4 1 2 3 The Romance of the Three Kindoms Romance of The Three Kingdoms is one of the great chinese classics and is compiled into a semi-fictional literary masterpiece during the Ming Dynasty by Luo Guanzhong. Tales of their exploits, courage, adventures and many more are told in the novel . The Story by the Water Margin Chinas great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh，written in the fourteenth century，is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty.One by one，over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal(封建的) officialdom to take to the hills.They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them. The Dream of the Red Chamber Also called The story of the Stone (Shitouji 石头记), this novel written by Cao Xueqin (d. 1763) is said to be the greatest masterpiece of Chinese fiction. A wide branched scholarship does not consent about the main theme of this novel, should it be a novel of sentiment, of Daoist-Buddhist enlightenment, of social observation, of the decay of an aristocratic familiy, or even a veiled attack on Manchu rule. Journey to the West Journey to the West is a mythological novel based on many centuries of popular tradition. It was probably put into its present form by Wu Cheng’en (1500-82).This lively fantasy relates the amazing adventures of the priest San-zang as he travels west in search of Buddhist sutras with his three disciples，