his translation experience and is telling about his historical interests. Like Northern Frontier, the work focuses on strategies, campaigns, and personalities. The approach owes a great deal to the narrative tradition of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms but Generals of the South also discusses the population and development of southern China from the second century AD. In dealing with the military defence of the south via the boundary of the Yangtze River, it presents the best discussion of the Battle of Red Cliffs and early Chinese riverine warfare available in English. The work also provides an important prelude to further research into the political and cultural divisions of the Northern and Southern dynasties. In 2007, A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms 23–220 AD was published by Brill as a companion to Michael Loewe's biographical dictionary dealing with the Qin, Former Han, and Xin periods 221 BC – 24 AD (Brill 2000). De Crespigny's more recent publications include Imperial Warlord, a biography of Cao Cao (Brill 2010), which was awarded the Stanislas Julien Prize for 2011 by the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. In 2016 Brill published Fire over Luoyang, a narrative and analytical history of Later Han. He was brought on as a consultant for the Creative Assembly strategy video game Total War: Three Kingdoms'' (released 2019). Associations and appointments De Crespigny is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has also been President of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, a Fellow of the Oriental Society of Australasia, a vice-president of the Australian Institute of International Affairs; and a member of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the Historical Association (UK) and the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. 1971: Secretary-General of the 28th International Congress of Orientalists at Canberra 1971–72: Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge 1972 and 1984: Academic Exchange Visitor of the German Academic Exchange Service [DAAD] 1978: Visiting Professor, Asian Studies Program, University of Hawaii 1978: Guest Professor, College of Chinese Culture 1983–97: Honorary Treasurer, Australian Committee for the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust 1986: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Sinology, Leiden University 1991–2001: Master of University House, Australian National University Honours De Crespigny was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001 for services to Australian society in Asian studies. See also C. T. C. de Crespigny, Rafe de Crespigny's grandfather, includes details of the Australian branch