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"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 ...
Timeline of territorial changes during the Three Kingdoms period.. This is a timeline of the Three Kingdoms period (220–280) of Chinese history.In a strict academic sense, the Three Kingdoms period refers to the interval between the founding of the state of Cao Wei (220–266) in 220 and the conquest of the state of Eastern Wu (229–280) by the Western Jin dynasty (265–316) in 280.
The Records of the Three Kingdoms recorded in just one sentence that Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang three [b] times and met him. [Sanguozhi 1] The Zizhi Tongjian recorded that the meeting(s) took place in 207. [6] Chen Shou also mentions the three visits in his biographical sketch of Zhuge Liang appended to the memoirs Chen Shou compiled ...
The Three Kingdoms of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dominated China from 220 to 280 AD following the end of the Han dynasty. [1] This period was preceded by the Eastern Han dynasty and followed by the Western Jin dynasty. Academically, the periodisation begins with the establishment of Cao Wei in 220 and ends with the conquest of Wu by Jin ...
During the Three Kingdoms period, the Sima clan—with its most accomplished individual being Sima Yi—rose to prominence within the kingdom of Cao Wei that dominated northern China. Sima Yi was the regent of Cao Wei, and in 249 he instigated a coup d'état known as the Incident at Gaoping Tombs , the Sima clan began to surpass the Cao clan's ...
The siege of Chencang was a battle fought between the states of Shu Han and Cao Wei between December 228 to early 229 during the Three Kingdoms period in China. It was the second of the Northern Expeditions led by Shu-Han's chancellor-regent, Zhuge Liang, to invade Wei.
In 230, the island of Yizhou was reached by the Chinese during the Three Kingdoms period under the reign of Sun Quan. [23] Contact with the native population and the dispatch of officials to an island named "Yizhou" ( 夷州 ) by the Wu navy might have been to Taiwan , but the location of Yizhou is open to dispute; some historians believe it ...
Despite the name "Three Kingdoms", the Three Kingdoms were not technically kingdoms since their supreme rulers were not kings, but emperors in the Chinese context. Since these domains do not meet the definition of empires (that honour goes to all of China, also known as the Chinese Empire ), we refer to the Three Kingdoms as "states".