Sun Quan

Emperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period

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Lived 182–252, aged 70China
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    182–252
    Aged 70
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Updated 2026-06-10

At eighteen he inherited a fractured warlord regime along the Yangtze, survived Cao Cao's 220,000-strong invasion through riverine warfare at Red Cliffs, and outlasted every other founder of the Three Kingdoms — ruling Eastern Wu for half a century while his rivals burned out young.

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Sun Quan was born in 182 AD while his father Sun Jian served as adjutant of Xiapi County; after Sun Jian's death in the early 190s, the family moved along the lower Yangtze until his elder brother Sun Ce carved out control of the Jiangdong region. When Sun Ce was assassinated in 200 AD, the eighteen-year-old inherited the lands southeast of the Yangtze, stabilized by senior officers like Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao who backed the succession. He spent the 200s building strength along the river, finally defeating the warlord Huang Zu in early 208 AD. That winter, facing Cao Cao's massive southern inv…

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