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Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) has not been fully translated into English. William Gordon Crowell alludes to a project to translate Chen Shou's work with Pei Songzhi's commentary, but it was apparently discontinued. Some of the Records have been translated by various scholars as part of their own projects, and this page is intended to be a quick reference to find which fascicles (卷) have been translated in academia, and where to find them.

Note that although there is a book that bills itself as Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language, it is not a translation of Sanguozhi, but a translation of Sanguozhi Pinghua ("Pinghua" means "plain language"), a novel that served as the basis for the later and more famous Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In addition to the list below, one may also consult the translations of the Song dynasty Zizhi Tongjian done by Rafe de Crespigny and Achilles Fang, which incorporates text from the Records of the Three Kingdoms.

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Fascicle Title Translator(s) Publish year URL/page numbers Notes
5 (Wei 5) Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States With Pei Songzhi's Commentary Robert Joe Cutter and William Gordon Crowell 1999 Lady Bian, Lady Zhen, Guo Nüwang, Empress Mao, Empress Guo
8 (Wei 8) Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed Patricia Buckley Ebrey 2009 pp.84-5 The section titled "Heterodox Bandits" is an unannotated translation of the Dianlue footnote of the Zhang Lu chapter, about Zhang Xiu (張脩)
9 (Wei 9) Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook Timothy M. Davis 2013 pp. 135-46 Translation of the correspondence between Xiahou Xuan and Sima Yi from the biography of Xiahou Xuan
29 (Wei 29) Doctors Diviners and Magicians of Ancient China: Biographies of Fang-Shih Kenneth J. Dewoskin 1983 Hua Tuo, Du Kui, Zhu Jianping, Zhou Xuan, Guan Lu
30 (Wei 30) Sourcebook of Korean Civilization: Volume One: From Early Times to the 16th Century Michael C. Rogers 1993 pp.13-24 Buyeo, Goguryeo, Okjeo, Yemaek, Samhan (abridged, Yilou omitted); also adapted in Sources of Korean Tradition vol 1, pp. 7-13.
Japan in the Chinese dynastic histories: Later Han through Ming dynasties Ryūsaku Tsunoda and Luther Carrington Goodrich 1951 pp. 8-16 Wa (Japan) only; also adapted in Sources of Japanese Tradition Vol 1, second edition, pp. 6-8.
The Peoples of the West from the Weilüe 魏略 by Yu Huan 魚豢: A Third Century Chinese Account Composed between 239 and 265 CE. John E. Hill 2004 [1] Translation of the long Xirong footnote from the Weilüe, includes descriptions of the Western Regions including Rome
31 (Shu 1) Record of The Three Kingdoms: The History of Shu - Fascicle One: “The Two Shepherds Liu” William Gordon Crowell 2005 [2] Liu Yan, Liu Zhang
32 (Shu 2) Record of The Three Kingdoms: The History of Shu - Fascicle Two: “The Former Lord” William Gordon Crowell 2006 [3] Liu Bei
34 (Shu 4) Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States With Pei Songzhi's Commentary Robert Joe Cutter and William Gordon Crowell 1999 Lady Gan, Empress Wu, Empress Zhang (former), Empress Zhang (later), Liu Yong, Liu Li, Liu Xuan
39 (Shu 9) Record of The Three Kingdoms: The History of Shu - Fascicle Nine: Biographies of Dong He, Liu Ba, Ma Liang, Chen Zhen, Dong Yun, and Lü Yi William Gordon Crowell 2006 [4] Dong He, Liu Ba, Ma Liang, Ma Su, Chen Zhen, Dong Yun, Chen Zhi, Lü Yi
42 (Shu 12) Sanguo Zhi Fascicle 42: The Biography of Qiao Zhou J. Michael Farmer 2017 [5] Qiao Zhou only
46 (Wu 1) The Biography of Sun Chien: Being an Annotated Translation of Pages 1 to 8a of Chüan 46 of the San-kuo Chih of Ch'en Shou in the Po-na Edition Rafe de Crespigny 1966 [6] Sun Jian only
49 (Wu 4) Men of Hu, Men of Han, Men of the hundred man: the biography of Sī Nhiêp and the conceptualization of early Vietnamese society Stephen O'Harrow 1986 pp. 259-65 Shi Xie only
50 (Wu 5) Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States With Pei Songzhi's Commentary Robert Joe Cutter and William Gordon Crowell 1999 Lady Wu, Wu Jing, Lady Xie, Lady Xu, Bu Lianshi, Empress Dayi, Empress Jinghuai, Empress Pan, Quan Huijie, Empress Zhu, Empress Dowager He, Teng Fanglan

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