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Officials and Titles of the Three Kingdoms

Adapted from Hong's work (Qing dynasty)

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Excellencies & Ministers
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Departments
Attendants, Imperial Secretariat...
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III
Military
Generals, Commandants...
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Regional Administration
Inspectors, Grand Administrators...
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Imperial Household
Crown Prince, Empress...
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VI
Nobility (WIP)
Marquis and others
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This compilation of official titles is based primarily on Qing scholar Hong Yisun’s Table of Official Titles of the Three Kingdoms, with reference to other authoritative works.

The English renderings used here reflect my own editorial choices, while also drawing on a range of Chinese-to-English reference works.

Chinese Reference Works
Lü Zongli, Comprehensive Dictionary of Official Systems Throughout Chinese History
Hong Wuxiong, Explanatory Studies on the Shu-Han Portion of the Table of Shu-Han Official Titles
Yang Chen, Collected Essentials of the Three Kingdoms
English Translation References
English Translations of Han Dynasty Official Titles (University of Washington)
Rafe de Crespigny, A Dictionary of the Official Titles of Imperial China: Later Han to the Three Kingdoms
Michael Loewe, The Government of the Qin and Han Empires: 221 BCE–220 CE
Charles Hucker, A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China
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