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Dong Zhuo | |
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| 董卓 | |
 A Qing dynasty illustration of Dong Zhuo | |
| Grand Preceptor (太師) | |
| In office 189 – 22 May 192 | |
| Monarch | Emperor Xian of Han |
| Chancellor of State (相國) | |
| In office 189 | |
| Monarch | Emperor Xian of Han |
| General of the Vanguard (前將軍) | |
| In office 188–189 | |
| Monarchs | Emperor Ling of Han / Emperor Shao of Han |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 140s Min County, Gansu |
| Died | 22 May 192[1] Xi'an, Shaanxi |
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| Occupation | Military general, politician, warlord |
| Courtesy name | Zhongying (仲穎) |
| Peerage | Marquis of Mei (郿侯) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Han Empire Dong Zhuo's regime |
| Unit | Dong Zhuo's forces Han Imperial Forces |
| Battles/wars | Liang Province Rebellion Massacre of the Eunuchs Campaign against Dong Zhuo |
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Dong Zhuo (ⓘ) (c. 140s – 22 May 192),[1] courtesy name Zhongying,[a] was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty. At the end of the reign of the Eastern Han, Dong Zhuo was a general and powerful minister of the imperial government. Originally from Liang Province, Dong Zhuo seized control of the imperial capital Luoyang in 189 when it entered a state of turmoil following the death of Emperor Ling of Han and a massacre of the eunuch faction by the court officials led by General-in-Chief He Jin.
Dong Zhuo subsequently deposed Liu Bian (Emperor Shao) and replaced him with his half-brother, the puppet Emperor Xian to make him become the de facto ruler of China in the boy-emperor's name. The Eastern Han dynasty regime survived in name only.[3] Dong Zhuo's rule was brief and characterized by cruelty and tyranny. In the following year, a coalition of regional officials (cishi) and warlords launched a campaign against him. Failing to stop the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo sacked Luoyang and relocated further west to the former Western Han capital at Chang'an (modern Xi'an, Shaanxi province). He was assassinated soon after in May 192 by his subordinate Lü Bu in a plot orchestrated by Interior Minister Wang Yun.[4]
- ^ a b de Crespigny (2007), pp. 157–158.
- ^ (且說董卓字仲顈，隴西臨洮人也，官拜河東太守，自來驕傲。l) Sanguo Yanyi ch. 2.
- ^ de Crespigny. A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms, biography of Liu Xie, pp. 555–556
- ^ de Crespigny, Rafe (2017). Fire over Luoyang: A History of the Later Han Dynasty 23–220 AD. Leiden: Brill. p. 419. ISBN 9789004324916.
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