Sun Ce

Sun Ce
Warlord
Born	175
Died	200 (aged 25)
Names
Traditional Chinese	孫策
Simplified Chinese	孙策
Pinyin	Sūn Cè
Wade–Giles	Sun Tse
Courtesy name	Bofu (Chinese: 伯符; pinyin: Bófú; Wade–Giles: Po-fu)
Posthumous name	Prince Huan of Changsha (traditional Chinese: 長沙桓王; simplified Chinese: 长沙桓王; pinyin: Chángshā Huán Wáng; Wade–Giles: Ch'ang-sha Huan Wang)
Other names	"Little Conqueror" (Chinese: 小霸王; pinyin: Xiǎo Bàwáng; Wade–Giles: Hsiao Pa-wang)

Sun Ce (175–200),courtesy name Bofu, was a military general and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty. He was the eldest child of Sun Jian, who was killed during the Battle of Xiangyang when Sun Ce was only 16. Sun Ce then broke away from his father's overlord, Yuan Shu, and headed to southeastern China to establish his own power base there. With the help of several people, such as Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu, Sun Ce managed to lay down the foundation of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

In 200, when the warlord Cao Cao was at war with his rival Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu, Sun Ce was rumored to be planning an attack on Cao Cao's capital city of Xuchang. However, he was assassinated before he could carry out the plan. Sun Ce was posthumously honored as "Prince Huan of Changsha" (長沙桓王) by his younger brother Sun Quan when the latter became the first emperor of Eastern Wu.

Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) describes Sun Ce as a handsome man who was full of laughter. He was also a generous and receptive man who employed people according to their abilities. As such, his subjects were willing to risk their lives for him. One detractor named Xu Gong, in a letter to Emperor Xian, likened Sun Ce to Xiang Yu, the warrior-king who overthrew the Qin dynasty. As a result, Sun Ce was also referred to as the "Little Conqueror" in popular culture.

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