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outstanding heroes / warlords vying for supremacy (in former times) / stars (of sports or pop music)
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
Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor
Huangfu Song (-195), later Han general and warlord
military clique / junta / warlord
Yang Sen (1884-1977), Sichuan warlord and general
Red Hare, famous horse of the warlord Lü Bu 呂布|吕布 in the Three Kingdoms era
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
Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吳|吴 in the Three Kingdoms period
Lü Bu (-198), general and warlord
Sun Ce (175-200), general and major warlord of the Later Han Dynasty
counselor of king or feudal warlord / henchman
Liu Biao (142-208), warlord
incessant fighting between warlords
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
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
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
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)
Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928
Li Zongren (1891-1969), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction
MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 鐮倉幕府|镰仓幕府
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
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
Yan Xishan (1883-1960), warlord in Shanxi
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
Xu Shichang (1855-1939), politician associated with the Northern Warlords, president of China in 1921
TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi (1536-1598), Japanese warlord, undisputed ruler of Japan 1590-1598
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
the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)
Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949
ODA Nobunaga (1534-1582), Japanese shogun (warlord), played an important role in unifying Japan
Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong
(of a warlord etc) to assemble one's personal army, thereby presenting a challenge to the central government
war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government
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
the Ma clique of warlords in Gansu and Ningxia during the 1930s and 1940s
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
Sun Chuanfang (1885-1935) one of the northern warlord, murdered in Tianjin in 1935
Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
Duan Qirui (1864-1936), commander of Beiyang Army under Yuan Shikai, then politician and powerful warlord
Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China
the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords
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
Beiyang faction of Northern Warlords
north China army (esp. during the warlords period)
Sima Yi (179-251), warlord under Cao Cao and subsequently founder of the Jin dynasty
Fengtian clique (of northern warlords)
Fengtian clique (of northern warlords)
Guangxi warlord faction, from 1911-1930
Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general
the Zhili faction of the Northern Warlords
confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction
Yuan Shao (153-202), general during late Han, subsequently warlord
Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leader of old Guangxi warlord faction
Feng Yuxiang (1882-1948), warlord during Republic of China, strongly critical of Chiang Kai-shek


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