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Gan Ning fled with 800 followers to Liu Biao and then Huang Zu, who treated him with disdain due to his past history as a bandit. At the Battle of Xiakou in 203, Huang Zu's fleet was defeated in an attack by Sun Quan, and he himself was nearly captured until Gan Ning killed the enemy general, Ling Cao, with an arrow. Despite being saved by Gan ...
Huang Fu: Post abolished: 1925 Xu Shiying: 1926 Jia Deyao (acting) Hu Weide (acting) Yan Huiqing: Du Xigui (acting) V.K. Wellington Koo Wei-chün (acting) 1927 Pan Fu (acting) Post abolished: 1928 Tan Yankai: 1929 1930 T. V. Soong Tse-Ven: Chiang Kai-shek: 1931 Chen Mingshu: 1932 Sun Fo: Wang Jingwei: 1933 1934 1935 Chiang Kai-shek: 1936 1937 ...
Timeline of Chinese history. This is a timeline of Chinese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in China and its dynasties. To read about the background to these events, see History of China. See also the list of Chinese monarchs, Chinese emperors family tree, dynasties of China and years in China.
"The Three Kingdoms and Western Jin: A History of China in the Third Century AD ~ I" (PDF). East Asian History. 1 (1). de Crespigny, Rafe (2007), A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms, Brill; de Crespigny, Rafe (2018) [1990]. Generals of the South: the foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu ...
When Qin Shi Huang's magicians failed to get in touch with "spirits and immortals of the marvellous islands of the Eastern Sea", they excused themselves by saying large monsters blocked their way. Qin Shi Huang personally went out with a multiple bolt crossbow to see these monsters for himself. He found no monsters but killed a big fish. [55]
Imagined portrait of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of a unified China. Depiction from the Qing dynasty. The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during Ancient and Imperial periods. [a] The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography are of mythological origin, and followed by the Xia dynasty of highly uncertain and contested ...
Uyghur Khagans claimed descent from the Xiongnu (according to Chinese history Weishu, the founder of the Uyghur Khaganate was descended from a Xiongnu ruler). [ 176 ] [ 177 ] [ 178 ] Book of Wei states that the Yueban descended from remnants of the Northern Xiongnu chanyu 's tribe and that Yueban's language and customs resembled Gaoche (高車 ...
In all, Emperor Wu's forces conquered roughly 4.4 million km 2 (1.7 million mi 2) of new land, by far the largest territorial expansion in Chinese history. [103] Self-sustaining agricultural garrisons were established in these frontier outposts to support military campaigns as well as secure trade routes leading into Central Asia, the eastern ...