As I grew up with a father that had an immense love of history, I found myself drawn to entertainment that centered around historical figures and time periods.\u00a0 After reading Sun Tzu’s The Art of War<\/em> at a young age, I gravitated to Chinese history and sought out different media platforms that allowed me to discover more about the history of China.\u00a0 One platform that allowed me to gain insight into Chinese history was the video game Dynasty Warriors<\/em>.\u00a0 Delving into the romanticized period of China known as the Three Kingdoms period between 220 ACE to 280 ACE, the forth iteration of the game provided a full character biography for all mentioned individuals within the game.\u00a0 Reading through this, I became interested in the story that the game had been based on.\u00a0 Leading me to read the epic\u00a0Romance of the Three Kingdoms<\/em> by Luo Guanzhong, I became captivated by this unique period in Chinese history responsible for producing vast amounts of literature, cinema and cultural traditions within Chinese society.\u00a0 As i familiarized myself with the stories of the\u00a0Three Kingdoms<\/em>, I continued to look at the actually history of the characters and their respective achievements during this period in Chinese history.\u00a0 Looking at this game as a historian, it is necessary to separate it from the hack and slash action and over the top character designs to discover the historical importance of Dynasty Warriors<\/em>.\u00a0 The game offers the modern gamer to enter into a time period marked with great devastation and political upheaval to understand components of Chinese history that helped shape the modern Chinese state.\u00a0 Though retelling the story of the Three Kingdoms period, viewing this game as a historian allows the individual to see the attention to detail of this chaotic epoch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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