What are the genres of Chinese history books?

Country-specific style, chronicle style, and chronicle style are as follows:

Country-specific style is to categorize history by country. The State of the Nation, the Strategies of the Warring States. Chronicle style is the genre of history books written with characters as the central clue, pioneered by Sima Qian. The Twenty-Four Histories are all chronicles. Chronology is a genre of historical books that describes historical facts in chronological order, such as Zuozhuan and Zizhi Tongjian.

Chronology

Chronology is a genre of traditional Chinese history books, in which historical events are organized in chronological order. Chronological history books are centered on time, and chronicle historical events in the order of years, months, and days. Because it takes time as the warp and historical events as the weft, it is easier to reflect the connection of various historical events in the same period. For example: Spring and Autumn Annals, Zuo Zhuan, Ziji Tongjian, Bamboo Book Chronicle, Han Chronicle.

China's traditional history book of a genre, biography as the center of the narrative historical facts. The Ji is the emperor's chronicle, which is listed in front of the whole book, and the biographies are the biographies of other characters, which began in the Han Dynasty with the Shiji written by Sima Qian. The historical events are recounted separately, with the country as the unit. The Guoyu is the first country-specific historical record in China, and it is a part of the country-specific historical prose.

Beginning with King Mu of the Western Zhou Dynasty and ending with Duke Lu in the early years of the Warring States period, it contains the historical facts of Zhou, Lu, Qi, Jin, Zheng, Chu, Wu, and Yue for about 427 years. It was compiled by the historians of the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The Records of the Warring States is much more detailed and vivid than the Spring and Autumn Period, and it also preserves many precious historical materials. The Warring States Strategies is a compilation of historical materials from the Warring States period.