* Taishi Ci, first a general under Kong Rong, then Liu Yao, and later under Sun Ce and Sun Quan ( d. 206 )

Dong Zhuo then manipulated the succession so that Liu Xie could take the throne in lieu of Liu Bian.

Tao Qian received the support of Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, but even then it seemed as if Cao Cao's superior forces would overrun Xu Province entirely.

In the south, Sun Ce, then an independent general under the service of Yuan Shu, defeated the warlords of Yang Province, including Liu Yao, Wang Lang, and Yan Baihu.

Liu Bang then betrayed and defeated Xiang Yu, declaring himself Emperor Gaozu of the new Han Dynasty.

* Qian Fei Di, then Ming Di becomes ruler of the Liu Song Dynasty after his nephew is assassinated.

He then yielded northern Jing Province to Liu Bei as well, agreeing with Liu that the south was insufficient to supply his troops.

Cao Pi's strategist Liu Ye suggested that Cao Pi decline — and in fact attack Sun Quan on a second front, effectively partitioning Sun's domain with Shu, and then eventually seek to destroy Shu as well.

For example, he correctly trusted the faithful Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin, so much so that he made a duplicate imperial seal and left it with Lu Xun ; whenever he would correspond with Shu's emperor Liu Shan or regent Zhuge Liang, he would deliver the letter to Lu Xun first ( as Lu's post was near the Shu border ), and then if, in Lu's opinion, changes were needed, he would revise the letter and then restamp it with Sun's imperial seal.

The Wei lured the Liu Song to cross the Yellow River, and then flanked them, destroying the Eastern army.

However, his claim to the throne was not accepted by Liu Zixun, one of his nephews, who then rose against him.

In 304 the sinicised Liu Yuan, a grandson of Yufuluo Chizhisizhu stirred up descendants of the southern Xiongnu in rebellion in Shanxi, taking advantage of the War of the Eight Princes then raging around the Western Jin capital Luoyang.

Liu Bei then took control of Jingzhou ; he went on to conquer Yizhou ( the Sichuan Basin ), but lost Jingzhou to Sun Quan ; for the next few decades Jingzhou was controlled by the Wu Kingdom, ruled by Sun Quan and his successors.

Liu was briefly arrested in Changsha and then returned to Guangzhou to help organize the 16-month long Canton-Hong Kong strike.

In 1934 Liu accompanied the Long March at least as far as the crucial Zunyi Conference, but was then sent to the so-called " White Areas " ( areas controlled by the Kuomintang ) to reorganize underground activities in northern China, centered around Beijing and Tianjin.

Over the next century or so Shandong changed hands several times, falling to the Later Zhao, then Former Yan, then Former Qin, then Later Yan, then Southern Yan, then the Liu Song Dynasty, and finally the Northern Wei Dynasty, the first of the Northern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period.

She then summoned Liu Ruyi to the capital Chang ' an in an attempt that was initially resisted by Liu Ruyi's chief of staff Zhou Chang ( 周昌 ), whom she respected because he was one of the officials who insisted on Liu Ying being the rightful heir.

General Liu Jingsong, commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, led China's first military delegation to Kenya in December 1996 ; Major General Nick Leshan, commander of the Kenyan air force, paid a return visit in 1997.

The first of these is led by Liu Chong, Marquess of Ang-Zong ( a / k / a Marquis of An-chung ), with a small force starting in May or June.

Liu Bian took the Han throne as Emperor Shao, and He Jin plotted with warlord Yuan Shao to assassinate the Ten Attendants, a clique of ten eunuchs led by Zhang Rang who controlled much of the imperial court.

After Dong Zhuo demoted Emperor Shao and promoted his brother Liu Xie as Emperor Xian, Yuan Shao led a coalition of former officials and officers against Dong, who burned Luoyang to the ground and resettled the court at Chang ' an in May 191 CE.

In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials who were accused of taking a " capitalist road ", most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping.

While the Lushan Conference served as a death knell for Peng, Mao's most vocal critic, it led to a shift of power to moderates led by Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, who took effective control of the economy following 1959.

Much like the post-Great Leap restructuring led by Liu Shaoqi, Deng streamlined the railway system, steel production, and other key areas of the economy.

Finally, in October 1935, Mao's army reached Shaanxi province and joined with local Communist forces there, led by Liu Zhidan, Gao Gang, and Xu Haidong, who had already established a Soviet base in northern Shaanxi.

Cao Cao led his forces to escape on land, but much of the force was destroyed by Sun Quan and Liu Bei's land forces.

Liu Bei personally went to Gong ' an and Guan Yu led 30, 000 men to Yiyang.

The protests were also led by two other " radical intellectuals ", Wang Ruowang and Liu Binyan.

Liu went back to China in 1922, and as secretary of the All-China Labor Syndicate, led several railway workers ' strikes in the Yangzi Valley and at Anyuan on the Jiangxi-Hunan border.

During the next two years Liu led numerous political campaigns and strikes in Hubei and Shanghai.

At this Congress Liu stood together with Deng Xiaoping and Peng Zhen against those who supported Mao's policies, led by Chen Yun and Zhou Enlai.

In order to correct the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward Liu and Deng led economic reforms, which bolstered their prestige among the party apparatus and the national populace. Once he said to Mao :" People write books about cannibalism!

By 1962 Liu's opposition to Mao's policies had led Mao to distrust Liu.

Zhao's experiences during the Great Leap Forward led him to support moderate political and economic policies, including those supported by Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi.

Liu Kang, the main character in the Mortal Kombat series, is a Shaolin monk, and Kung Lao from the same series, is also a Shaolin monk who seeks to avenge the temple's destruction, ( led by Baraka in Mortal Kombats story ), they were so popular, they were turned into their own video game, Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks.

He played a significant role in the civil war that led to the collapse of the Han Dynasty and the establishment of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period, of which Liu Bei was the first emperor.

Shortly after, Cao Cao personally led a campaign to reclaim Xu Province from Liu Bei and defeated him in battle.

Meanwhile, Liu Bei led some 100, 000 refugees south, but was caught up by the elite cavalry of Cao Cao at Changban.

Backed by Liu Bei, Guan Yu led a force to Xiakou to fight Yue Jin and Wen Ping, but was repelled by his rivals.

Despite warnings by Li Dian, Xiahou Dun led the main army into Liu Bei's ambush, and was defeated.

Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi led Party efforts to revive the Chinese economy, and cultivated Peng's friendship as part of a wider effort to gain widespread support for their activities.