Qin and Han · Rebel

Wang Wu 王武

Attested BC 205 - BC 204

Passages
3
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Wu as a rebel. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Wu 王武 Wang Wu
Personal Wang Wu 王武 Wáng Wǔ

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Rebel

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 擊反者王武 · Western Interval: Start: BC 205 · End: BC 204
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:098:s0031
  • Source Date: Text: 王武反 · Western Year: BC 205
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:054:s0049

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 48Volume 39: Xiao He and Cao Shen · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 54House of Chancellor Cao · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 98Biographies of Fu, Jin, and the Marquis of Kuaicheng · 1 passage