During the Wei,Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties of China,the Three Kingdoms pat-tern appeared many times,forming an international pat-tern of triangular relationship.Unlike the triangular re-lationship under the contemporary international system,it is a life-and-death game in a closed environment.The ultimate goal of each actor is to eliminate the other two in order to unify China.If one observes triangular rela-tionship with regard to relative strength,there are three types-the strong actor between two weak actors,the re-lation of approximate equality,and the weak actor be-tween two strong actors.Actors have different strategies in different types.This dissertation then makes process-tracings of three specific cases-Wei-Shu-Wu,Former Qin-Former Yan-Eastern Jin,Chen-Northern Zhou-Northern Qi—to test the five hypotheses,and the results show that these cases support all three hypotheses to a large extent.
WeiJin and Northern and Southern DynastiesTriangular relationshipActor strategy
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