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Imperial warlord : a biography of Cao Cao 155-220 AD by Richard Rafe Champion De Crespigny is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The warlord Cao Cao, founder of the Three Kingdoms state of Wei, is most commonly known through the romantic tradition of the novel Sanguo yanyi and other dramatic fictions, which portray him as cruel and vicious. In fact, however, Cao Cao was a fine strategist and politician who restored a measure of order after the political turmoil and civil war that brought the end of Han. The present work offers a detailed account of Cao Cao's life and times, using historical materials and the man's own words from official proclamations and personal poetry. Exceptionally for such a distant time, there is sufficient information in the texts to provide a rounded interpretation of one of the great characters of early China. Rafe de Crespigny, Ph.D. (1968) of the Australian National University, is Professor of Asian Studies at that university and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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Author

Richard Rafe Champion De Crespigny

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283039314

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, History

Updated

2026-03-24