Imperial warlord : a biography of Cao Cao 155-220 AD

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Introduction
	A Summary Chronology of Cao Cao
Chapter One Grandson of a Eunuch 155–189
	Chronology
	The problems of Later Han
	The eunuch connection
	Young man about town
	Yellow Turbans
	Ruin of Government
Chapter Two To Guard the Emperor 190–196
	Chronology
	To govern Yan province 190–192
	Fight for survival 193–195
	Welcome to Xu city 196
	Captive Emperor
Chapter Three To Battle at Guandu 197–200
	Chronology
	Troublesome neighbours 196–198
	Conduct at court
	Approaches to Guandu 199–200
	Yuan Shao's Call to Arms
	Decisive victory 200
	The Guandu campaign: a reappraisal
Chapter Four The Conduct of Civil War
	The heritage of Later Han
	Rebels, bandits, gentry and self-defence groups: the development of hereditary troops
	Weapons and tactics
	Numbers, supply and control
	Casualties, prisoners, hostages and the behaviour of gentlemen
Chapter Five Conquest of the North 201–207
	Chronology
	The fall of the Yuan clan 201–204
	Settlement of the North 204–206
	White Wolf Mountain 207
Chapter Six Red Cliffs 208
	Chronology
	Government of the empire
	To defeat in Jing province
	War on water: weapons, techniques and tactics
Chapter Seven Military Matters 209–217
	Military Chronology
	Northwest and southeast 209–214
	Liu Bei and Sun Quan 209–214
	Two surrenders: Zhang Lu and Sun Quan 215–217
	Cao Cao and the Art of War
Chapter Eight Court and Capital
	The elegance of Ye and the Masters of Jian'an
	Poems and an Apologia
	Character and style of government
Chapter Nine Tensions of Loyalty 210–217
	Chronology
	The Trappings of power
	Imperial consorts
	Women and children
	A question of succession
	217: the year of the plague
Chapter Ten The Last Years 218–220
	Chronology 218–220
	Chronology from 220
	Liu Bei in Hanzhong 218–219
	Guan Yu and Lü Meng in Jing province 219
	Posthumous emperor 220
	The later history of Cao Wei
Chapter Eleven Another Life: History, Anecdote and Fiction
	Pei Songzhi, Fan Ye and Shishuo xinyu
	Story-tellers, poets, playwrights and Pinghua
	Revisionist history, Romance and the Peking opera
	Marxist debate and the modern actor
	Why Cao Cao?
Bibliography
	Early Sources: Standard Histories
	Early Sources: Works by Cao Cao
	Early Sources: Other Texts
	Modern Works
Index