# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuan-shao
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:35:09.570Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/yuan-shao"
name: "Yuan Shao"
slug: "yuan-shao"
description: "He commanded the north and assembled the largest coalition of warlords in a collapsing empire, then lost it all at Guandu — a single battle that turned the map of China. His downfall gets blamed on something harder to fight than armies: the inability to choose."
tagline: "Han Dynasty warlord (154-202)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuan_Shao_Portrait.jpg"
gender: "male"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "154"
deathDate: "0202-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  192
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Yuan Shao rose as a general and politician in the late Eastern Han dynasty, controlling the vast northern territories as civil war fractured the realm. In response to Dong Zhuo seizing Emperor Xian and holding him hostage in Luoyang, Yuan spearheaded a coalition of warlords to oppose him, but internal division tore the alliance apart before it could succeed. By 200 he had amassed enough strength to challenge Cao Cao, his chief rival, launching a major campaign that culminated in the Battle of Guandu — where he was decisively defeated. He withdrew to Ye and died of illness two years later, on 28 June 202. History remembers the gap between his advantages — illustrious family, geography, manpower — and the outcome, a gap his contemporaries attributed to indecisiveness and a refusal to listen.