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| | Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布 | |
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| | Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor | |
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| | Huangfu Song (-195), later Han general and warlord | |
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| | Yang Sen (1884-1977), Sichuan warlord and general | |
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| | Red Hare, famous horse of the warlord Lü Bu 呂布|吕布 in the Three Kingdoms era | |
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| | Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty | |
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| | Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吳|吴 in the Three Kingdoms period | |
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| | Lü Bu (-198), general and warlord | |
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| | Sun Ce (175-200), general and major warlord of the Later Han Dynasty | |
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| | counselor of king or feudal warlord / henchman | |
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| | Liu Biao (142-208), warlord | |
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| | incessant fighting between warlords | |
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| | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 | |
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| | Wang Dun (266-324), powerful general of Jin dynasty and brother of civil official Wang Dao 王導|王导, subsequently rebellious warlord 322-324 | |
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| | Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, sometimes listed as number 25 or 26 of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Zhao Erxun 趙爾巽|赵尔巽 in 1927 during the Northern Warlords period, 536 scrolls | |
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| | Liu Yuan (c. 251-310), warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋, founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成漢|成汉 (304-347) | |
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| | Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928 | |
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| | Li Zongren (1891-1969), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction | |
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| | MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 鐮倉幕府|镰仓幕府 | |
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| | Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords | |
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| | Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army | |
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| | Yan Xishan (1883-1960), warlord in Shanxi | |
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| | special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia | |
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| | Xu Shichang (1855-1939), politician associated with the Northern Warlords, president of China in 1921 | |
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| | TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi (1536-1598), Japanese warlord, undisputed ruler of Japan 1590-1598 | |
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| | Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承德, mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth | |
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| | the Northern Warlords (1912-1927) | |
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| | Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949 | |
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| | ODA Nobunaga (1534-1582), Japanese shogun (warlord), played an important role in unifying Japan | |
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| | Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong | |
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| | (of a warlord etc) to assemble one's personal army, thereby presenting a challenge to the central government | |
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| | war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government | |
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| | Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報|京报, executed in 1926 by warlord Zhang Zuolin 張作霖|张作霖 | |
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| | the Ma clique of warlords in Gansu and Ningxia during the 1930s and 1940s | |
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| | north China army, a modernizing Western-style army set up during late Qing, and a breeding ground for the Northern Warlords after the Qinghai revolution | |
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| | Sun Chuanfang (1885-1935) one of the northern warlord, murdered in Tianjin in 1935 | |
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| | Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords | |
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| | Duan Qirui (1864-1936), commander of Beiyang Army under Yuan Shikai, then politician and powerful warlord | |
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| | Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929 | |
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| | Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China | |
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| | the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China | |
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| | the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords | |
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| | the Warlord government of Northern China that developed from the Qing Beiyang army 北洋軍閥|北洋军阀 after the Xinhai revolution of 1911 | |
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| | Beiyang faction of Northern Warlords | |
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| | north China army (esp. during the warlords period) | |
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| | Sima Yi (179-251), warlord under Cao Cao and subsequently founder of the Jin dynasty | |
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| | Fengtian clique (of northern warlords) | |
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| | Fengtian clique (of northern warlords) | |
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| | Guangxi warlord faction, from 1911-1930 | |
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| | Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general | |
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| | the Zhili faction of the Northern Warlords | |
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| | confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction | |
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| | Yuan Shao (153-202), general during late Han, subsequently warlord | |
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| | Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leader of old Guangxi warlord faction | |
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| | Feng Yuxiang (1882-1948), warlord during Republic of China, strongly critical of Chiang Kai-shek | |
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