Generals of the South: the foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu
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de Crespigny, Rafe
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Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
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The present volume is concerned with one aspect of that greattradition: the development of the state of Wu, under control of the Sunfamily, in the territory south of the Yangzi. The establishment of thisseparate state, and its maintenance for the best part of a hundred years,was a critical factor for the centuries that followed. On the one hand, theindependence of Wu prevented Cao Cao, victor of the civil war in thenorth, from restoring the unity which had been lost by the last emperors of Han. At the same time, however, by confirming and developing aChinese presence in that frontier territory, the generals of Wu establishedthe conditions not just for their own short-lived political survival, butalso for the dynasties which took refuge there after the overthrow ofWestern Jin at the beginning of the fourth century, and which maintainedtheir cultural heritage through the next three hundred years.
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This work was first published in 1990 as No. 16 of the Asian Studies Monographs: New Series of the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University.
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