Chen Shou

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Chen Shou (?? - 297 AD) is the author of the San Guo Zhi, an historical account of the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was once an officer of the Shu-Han dynasty. His father, Chen Shi, was also an officer of the Shu-Han dynasty but was executed by Zhuge Liang after a failed campaign. After the fall of the Shu-Han dynasty, he served as an officer under the Jin dynasty, under which he later wrote the San Guo Zhi.

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