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CANZUK

CANZUK: proposed partnership of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom for freer movement, trade, and foreign policy cooperation, revived post-Brexit, promoted by CANZUK International, adopted by Canada's Conservatives in 2018.

Cao Bin

Cao Bin (曹彬, 931–999) was a Song dynasty general and Military Affairs Commissioner who conquered Southern Tang in 975 and was defeated by the Liao at Qigou Pass in 986.

Cao Can

Cao Can (曹璨, 950–1019) was a Song dynasty military officer, son of the general Cao Bin, who fought the Khitan and rose to military governor.

Cao Cao

Cao Cao (曹操, Mengde, c. 155–220 CE), late Eastern Han warlord, chancellor, and poet, controlled Emperor Xian, unified northern China, founded Wei's basis, lost at Red Cliffs 208, and is the villain of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Cao Cao Mobility (曹操出行)

Cao Cao Mobility (曹操出行) is a Chinese B2C ride-hailing platform founded in 2015 in Hangzhou and incubated by Geely, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June 2025.

Cao Cao's Bafu (Chancellor's Office)

Cao Cao's Bafu (曹操霸府) was the personal administration Cao Cao ran as Chancellor of Han from 196 to 220, the actual center of state power.

Cao Cao's Simple Burial Order

Cao Cao's Simple Burial Order (曹操薄葬令) was the command issued by the Han warlord Cao Cao between 205 and 220 that banned lavish funerals, stelae, and treasure, shaping burial practice through the Wei and Jin periods.

Cao Cao's Testamentary Instructions (Yiling)

Cao Cao's Testamentary Instructions (曹操遗令), known as the Yiling, is the deathbed testament Cao Cao issued at Luoyang in 220, ordering frugal burial and short mourning.

Cao Cao's Tuntian Edict

Cao Cao's Tuntian Edict (屯田令) was the decree by which the warlord Cao Cao, advised by Zao Zhi and Han Hao, settled farmers in state agricultural colonies from 196.

Cao Chong

Cao Chong (曹冲, 196–208) was a son of the warlord Cao Cao, famed for weighing an elephant by boat and considered as heir before dying at thirteen.

Cao family of Jiangning

The Cao family of Jiangning (曹家) was a Qing dynasty family of Imperial Household Department bondservants who held the Jiangning textile commissioner post almost continuously from 1663 into the 1720s.

Cao family of Zhending (Cao Bin line)

The Cao family of Zhending (真定曹氏) was a Northern Song military lineage from Lingshou county, founded by the general Cao Bin, whose granddaughter became Empress Cao, consort of Emperor Renzong.

Cao Fang

Cao Fang (曹芳) was emperor of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, installed as a child in 239 and deposed by the Sima family, dying in 274.

Cao Hong

Cao Hong (曹洪), courtesy name Zilian, was a cousin of Cao Cao who served as a general of the Wei state, best known for giving Cao Cao his horse at Xingyang.

Cao Huan

Cao Huan (曹奂) was the last emperor of Cao Wei, grandson of Cao Cao, who abdicated to Sima Yan in 266 and died in 302.

Cao Jie

Cao Jie (曹節) was a powerful Eastern Han eunuch who served Emperor Ling and crushed the regents Dou Wu and Chen Fan with a forged edict in 168.

Cao Kezhong

Cao Kezhong (曹克忠) was a Qing dynasty general from Tianjin who fought the Taiping and northwestern Muslim rebellions, rising from common soldier to Gansu military governor.

Cao Kun (曹锟)

Cao Kun (曹錕, 1862–1938), Zhili clique warlord leader and president of the Republic of China, October 1923 to November 1924, elected through the 5,000-yuan-per-vote bribery scandal and promulgator of the 1923 'Bribery Constitution', overthrown by Feng Yuxiang's Beijing Coup.

Cao Lin (biochemist)

Cao Lin (曹林), also rendered Lin Cao, is a Chinese biochemist and entrepreneur who founded the reagent maker Vazyme in Nanjing in 2012 and chairs it.

Cao Liyong

Cao Liyong (曹利用), courtesy name Yongzhi, was a Song dynasty statesman, 971–1029, who negotiated the Chanyuan peace with the Khitan and led the Bureau of Military Affairs under Emperors Zhenzong and Renzong.

Cao Man zhuan

Cao Man zhuan (曹瞒传) is a lost biography of Cao Cao, reportedly written by a person of Wu, whose fragments survive in Pei Songzhi's Records of the Three Kingdoms commentary.

Cao Mao

Cao Mao (曹髦), courtesy name Yanshi, was an emperor of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period and a grandson of Cao Pi, killed in 260 at age 20.

Cao Pi

Cao Pi (曹丕, 187–226), son of Cao Cao, received Emperor Xian's abdication in winter 220, founding the Wei dynasty and ending the Han; a poet and author of the Dianlun, a pioneer of Chinese literary criticism.

Cao Pi's Campaign against Wu

Cao Pi's Campaign against Wu (曹丕伐吴) was Wei emperor Cao Pi's three-pronged invasion of Wu in 222, launched after Sun Quan refused to send a hostage.

Cao Pi's usurpation of the Han throne

Cao Pi's usurpation of the Han throne (曹丕代汉) was the 220 abdication of Emperor Xian to Cao Pi, ending the Eastern Han and founding Cao Wei.

Cao Quan Stele

The Cao Quan Stele (曹全碑), also called the Cao Jingwan Stele, is an Eastern Han stele of 185 CE in clerical script, now in Xi'an's Beilin Museum.

Cao Ren

Cao Ren (曹仁), courtesy name Zixiao, was a Wei general and cousin of Cao Cao who held Jiangling against Zhou Yu and defended Fan against Guan Yu, ending his career as Grand Marshal.

Cao Renxian

Cao Renxian (曹仁贤), born 1968, is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded solar inverter maker Sungrow Power Supply in Hefei in 1997 and chairs it today.

Cao Shen

Cao Shen (曹参) was a Han dynasty statesman and general from Pei who fought for Emperor Gaozu and served as chancellor of Han, keeping Xiao He's rules unchanged.

Cao Shuang

Cao Shuang (曹爽) was a regent of the Cao Wei state during the Three Kingdoms period, son of the general Cao Zhen and co-regent with Sima Yi.