Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms period around 200 AD.

Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan

Investiture of the Gods, a major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's overthrow of the Shang.

Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan, with later chapters by Xu Qinfu

Dramatized History of Sui and Tang, a novel by Qing dynasty author Chu Renhuo