The appraisal史評
Sanguozhi Dongyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Eastern Yi in the Records of the Three Kingdoms) The oldest Chinese record of the countries round about. Buyeo, Goguryeo, Okjeo, Eumnu, Ye, the Three Han and the people of Wa appear here for the first time. The same brush set down in one scroll the Wuhuan and the Xianbei to the north and Da Qin — Rome — to the west, so that the measure by which the China of that day divided others up is laid bare along with them.
1Chen Shou's appraisal
評曰：《史》《漢》著朝鮮、兩越，東京撰錄西羌。魏世匈奴遂衰，更有烏丸、鮮卑，爰及東夷，使譯時通，記述隨事，豈常也哉！
The appraisal says: The Shi ji and the Han shu set down Joseon and the two Yue (越), and Dongjing (東京) composed and set down the Western Qiang (西羌). In the age of Wei the Xiongnu at last grew weak, and there were the Wuhuan and the Xianbei in their turn, and so it reached to the Eastern Yi, where envoys and interpreters went through from time to time and the record followed the affairs. How could it always be so?