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Former Shu 前蜀 (907-925)Later Shu 後蜀 (934-965)Jingnan 荊南 (Nanping 南平; 924-963)Southern Han 南漢 (917-971)Wu 吳 (902-937) |
Southern Tang 南唐 (937-975)Chu 楚 (926-951)Min 閩 (909-945)Wu-Yue 吳越 (907-978)Northern Han 北漢 (951-979) |
The Ten States (Shiguo 十國, 902~979) were short-lived autonomous polities, some ruled by emperors, some by kings, founded in southern China as successor states of the great Tang dynasty 唐 (618-907). Most of them were by and by conquered by Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤, eventual founder of the Song dynasty 宋 (960-1279).
This chapter of the ChinaKnowledge.de encyclopaedia gives an overview of the political, social and economic history of the Ten States, their geography, and provides a list of all rulers.