Xiang Yu
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Xiang Yu, born Xiang Ji, was a Chinese warlord who founded and led the short-lived kingdom-state of Western Chu during the interregnum period between the Qin and Han dynasties known as the Chu–Han Con
As depicted in the album Portraits of Famous Men, c. 1900, housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Tomb of Xiang Yu in Dongping County, Shandong
The celebrated Peking Opera episode Farewell My Concubine portrays Xiang Yu during his final days at Gaixia
Consort Yu (Xiang Yu's wife)
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Consort Yu, also known as "Yu the Beauty", was the wife of the warlord Xiang Yu, who competed with Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty, for supremacy over China during the Chu–Han Conten
Xiang Yu
…the Han forces. The morale of Xiang Yu's forces plummeted and many of them deserted. Xiang Yu, in despair, composed the "Song of Gaixia" while his wife Consort Yu committed suicide. The next morning, Xiang Yu led about 800 of his remaining elite horsemen on a desperate attempt to break out of the siege, with 5,000…
A portrait of Consort Yu from Baimei Xinyong Tuzhuan (百美新詠圖傳) by Yan Xiyuan