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The Zizhi Tongjian was a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography. The book chronologically narrates the history of China from the Warring States to the Five Dynasties (403 B.C.-959 C.E), contains 294 volumes. Its contents refer to politics, military, national relationship and the social economy, civilization, important historical characters. It changed the format of histories from biographical style (紀傳體) to chronological style (編年體), which is better suited for analysis, activism and criticism.