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三國演義 (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms) influenced The Poppy War
Added by Media Influence Map · 27 September 2026
The influence
三國演義 The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Book · 1350
The work it shaped
The Poppy War
Book · 2018
The evidence
The trilogy's Trifecta, three sworn warriors who once ruled the Empire together, and its warlord politics of shifting alliances echo Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which R. F. Kuang has cited alongside the twentieth-century Chinese history its war is drawn from.
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