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“State of Wei” as a book category centers on works—fiction and nonfiction—about the Chinese polities historically called Wei, including the Warring States kingdom (4th–3rd century BCE), Cao Wei of the Three Kingdoms (220–265 CE), Northern Wei (386–535 CE), and sometimes the earlier state of Wey. Titles in this category span narrative histories, biographies, scholarly studies, translations, and historical novels that explore court politics, interstate warfare and strategy, legal and administrative reform, culture and religion, and material culture. Readers will encounter pivotal figures and episodes, from Warring States reformers and campaigns to the Cao Wei power struggles and Northern Wei’s Sinicization and Buddhist patronage. The unifying thread is a focus on how “Wei” shaped Chinese statecraft, military thought, society, and literary memory across these eras.

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