
Two other Han generals shortly installed themselves as emperors and took over regions of western and southern China the Shu-Han empire (221–263/264) was proclaimed in what is now Sichuan province, and the Wu empire (222–280) was declared south of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) at Jianye (present-day Nanjing). Thus began the Wei kingdom (220–265/266), but its effective influence was confined to northern China. Its last emperor had become a mere puppet, and finally (220) he ceded the throne to Cao Pi, the son of his generalissimo and protector, Cao Cao. However, by the end of the 2nd century, the Dong Han empire was disintegrating into chaos. In 25 ce, after a brief period of disruption, the great Han empire had been reconstituted as the Dong (Eastern) Han. Three Kingdoms, Chinese (Pinyin) Sanguo or (Wade-Giles romanization) San-kuo, (220–280 ce), trio of warring Chinese states-Wei, Shu-Han, and Wu-that followed the demise of the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce).
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