Zhiqun Zhu, PhD, (54) is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Chair of Department of International Relations at Bucknell University, USA. He was Bucknell’s inaugural Director of the China Institute (2013-2017) and MacArthur Chair in East Asian politics (2008-2014). He previously taught at University of Bridgeport, Hamilton College, University of South Carolina, and Shanghai International Studies University. In the early 1990s, he was Senior Assistant to Consul for Press and Cultural Affairs at the American Consulate General in Shanghai. Dr. Zhu is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations and is frequently quoted by international media to comment on Chinese and East Asian affairs.

Tong Guan, China Tang dynasty eunuch general

Li Yuan, founder of Tang dynasty

You already know about the mechanics and core concepts for Zhang Jue and the Yellow Turbans. The question, however, is how you’ll fare once the Mandate War begins in earnest. That happens early on in Total War: Three Kingdoms – Mandate of Heaven‘s campaign. This mini-guide will focus on your opening moves as the conflict engulfs China.

Note: Many of Total War: Three Kingdoms – Mandate of Heaven‘s core concepts have already been discussed in our previous articles, so check out our guides and features hub for more information. 

89 years old. Sir Frank Lowy AC founded the Lowy Institute in 2003. He co-founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as its Executive Chairman for 50 years and then as non-executive Chairman between 2011 and 2018 when the company was acquired by Unibail-Rodamco. He is Chairman of the Institute for National Securities Studies, an independent academic institute that studies key issues relating to Israel’s national security and Middle East affairs. He has received numerous honours and citations for his business and philanthropic activities including being made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2017.

Born to a minor warlord in Okazaki, Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) began his military training with the Imagawa family. He later allied himself with the powerful forces of Oda Nobunaga and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi, expanding his land holdings via a successful attack on the Hojo family to the east. After Hideyoshi’s death resulted in a power struggle among the daimyo, Ieyasu triumphed in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and became shogun to Japan’s imperial court in 1603. Even after retiring, Ieyasu worked to neutralize his enemies and establish a family dynasty that would endure for centuries.

At birth the son of a minor daimyo (warlord), in death canonized by imperial decree as Toshodai-gongen, a Buddhist avatar, this one-time subordinate ally of first Oda Nobunaga and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi accomplished what neither of his senior partners had achieved: institutionalizing his power in inheritable form and founding a dynastic military government that endured for nearly three centuries.

Ieyasu capped a military career that spanned six decades with a victory in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 that left him in effective control of the nationwide political confederation that Hideyoshi had forged. 

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