The Romance of the Three Kingdoms belongs to the established canon of the "four great Classical novels" within Chinese literature; while tradition assigns it to Luo Guanzhong and dates it to the end of the fourteenth century; scholarship argues that a date about a century later is more likely. It deals with an era in which China was divided three ways between the Wei, Shu, and Wu Kingdoms in the wake of the Yellow Turban Rebellion of 184; this era ended when the three kingdoms were reunified under the Jin Dynasty in 280. While Luo's novel is in some respects highly fictionalized, it touches strongly upon traditional Confucian values held in Chinese society, including the value of loyalty to one's family and friends and trusting the judgment of one's superiors and rulers.