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Chen Shou

233 –297

Historian, Writer, Politician

Lived 64 years

Born in
Baxi Jun
Passed away in
Luoyang

Chen Shou (Chinese: 陳壽; 233 to 297), courtesy name Chengzuo (承祚), was a Chinese historian and official of Shu Han and the Western Jin dynasty. He studied under the scholar Qiao Zhou and held offices in Shu before entering Jin service after Shu's conquest in 263.

Chen Shou compiled the Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi), a 65-volume history of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu organized mainly as biographies. He drew on earlier histories of Wei and Wu and collected materials for Shu, which had no comparable official history. The work later became part of the Twenty-Four Histories.

Notable works: Records of the Three Kingdoms

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shou