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Zhang Wenli, the Glossary

Zhang Wenli (張文禮) (died September 15, 921?Academia Sinica.Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 271.), known as Wang Deming (王德明) during the time that he was an adoptive son of Wang Rong, was a Chinese military general and politician who initially served under the late Tang dynasty warlord Liu Rengong and Liu Rengong's son Liu Shouwen, and later Wang Rong, the only prince of the early Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Zhao (also known as Chengde Circuit (成德)).^[1]

Abaoji

Abaoji (872–6 September 926), posthumously known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Liao, was a Khitan leader and the founding emperor of the Liao dynasty of China, ruling from 916 to 926.

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Academia Sinica

Academia Sinica (AS, 3), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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Baoding

Baoding is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Bo Yang

Bo Yang (7 March 1920 – 29 April 2008), sometimes also erroneously called Bai Yang, was a Chinese historian, novelist, philosopher, poet based in Taiwan.

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Cangzhou

Cangzhou is a prefecture-level city in eastern Hebei province, People's Republic of China.

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Eunuch

A eunuch is a male who has been castrated.

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Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979.

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Grand chancellor (China)

The grand chancellor (among other titles), also translated as counselor-in-chief, chancellor, chief councillor, chief minister, imperial chancellor, lieutenant chancellor and prime minister, was the highest-ranking executive official in the imperial Chinese government.

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Hebei

Hebei is a province in North China.

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Historical Records of the Five Dynasties

The Historical Records of the Five Dynasties (Wudai Shiji) is a Chinese history book on the Five Dynasties period (907–960), written by the Song dynasty official Ouyang Xiu in private.

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Jiedushi

The jiedushi (Old Turkic: Tarduş) or jiedu, was a regional military governor in China; the title was established in the Tang dynasty and abolished in the Yuan dynasty.

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Jin (Later Tang precursor)

Jin (晉; 883 (or 896 or 907)–923), also known as Hedong (河東) and Former Jin (前晉) in Chinese historiography, was a dynastic state of China and the predecessor of the Later Tang dynasty.

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Jing Xiang (politician)

Jing Xiang (敬翔) (died November 20, 923?.Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 272.), courtesy name Zizhen (子振), formally the Marquess of Pingyang (平陽侯), was the chief strategist of the late Chinese Tang dynasty warlord Zhu Quanzhong, who assisted Zhu in his consolidation of central China, which Zhu eventually established as a new Later Liang (as its Emperor Taizu) to replace Tang. Zhang Wenli and Jing Xiang (politician) are 9th-century births.

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Li Cunxu

Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang, personal name Li Cunxu, nickname Yazi (亞子), stage name Li Tianxia (李天下), was the second ruling prince of the Former Jin dynasty (r. 908–923) who later became the founding emperor of the Later Tang dynasty (r. 923–926) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

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Liao dynasty

The Liao dynasty (Khitan: Mos Jælud), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur), officially the Great Liao, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people.

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Liu Rengong

Liu Rengong (died 914) was a warlord late in the Chinese Tang dynasty who controlled Lulong Circuit (盧龍, headquartered in modern Beijing) from 895 (when his one-time lord Li Keyong conquered Lulong and left him in charge of it) to 907 (when he was overthrown by his son Liu Shouguang and put under house arrest). Zhang Wenli and Liu Rengong are 9th-century births.

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Liu Shouguang

Liu Shouguang (died February 16, 914) was a warlord early in the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period who controlled Lulong (盧龍, headquartered in modern Beijing) and Yichang (義昌, headquartered in modern Cangzhou, Hebei) Circuits, after seizing control from his father Liu Rengong and defeating his brother Liu Shouwen. Zhang Wenli and Liu Shouguang are 9th-century births.

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Liu Shouwen

Liu Shouwen (died 910) was a warlord who ruled Yichang Circuit (義昌, headquartered in modern Cangzhou, Hebei) as its military governor (jiedushi) late in the Chinese Tang dynasty and early during Tang's succeeding Later Liang state. Zhang Wenli and Liu Shouwen are 9th-century births.

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Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Wang Rong (warlord)

Wang Rong (c. 877?Old Book of Tang, vol. 142.New Book of Tang, vol. 211.History of the Five Dynasties, vol. 54.New History of the Five Dynasties, vol. 54.Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 255.–921Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 271.), was a warlord in the final years of the Tang dynasty who later became the only ruler of the state of Zhao during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Zhang Wenli and Wang Rong (warlord) are 921 deaths and Zhao (Five Dynasties period) people.

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Wang Zhaozuo

Wang Zhaozuo (died 921) was the oldest son and heir apparent of Wang Rong, the only ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state of Zhao. Zhang Wenli and Wang Zhaozuo are 921 deaths and 9th-century births.

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Xingtai

Xingtai, formerly known as Xingzhou and Shunde, is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China.

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Yang Shihou

Yang Shihou (楊師厚) (died April 23, 915Academia Sinica.), formally the Prince of Ye (鄴王), was a major general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Liang, serving as the main obstacle to the expansion of Later Liang's archenemy Jin during latter parts of the reign of Emperor Taizu (Zhu Quanzhong) and the early parts of the reign of Emperor Taizu's son Zhu Zhen. Zhang Wenli and Yang Shihou are 9th-century births.

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Zhang Chujin

Zhang Chujin (died 922) was a ruler of Chengde Circuit (成德, headquartered in modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei, also known as Zhao) early in the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Zhang Wenli and Zhang Chujin are Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms generals and Zhao (Five Dynasties period) people.

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Zhao (Five Dynasties period)

Zhao (趙, ~910–~921) was a state early in the Five Dynasties period of the history of China in what is now central Hebei.

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Zhou Dewei

Zhou Dewei (周德威) (died January 28, 919Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 270..), courtesy name Zhenyuan (鎮遠), nickname Yangwu (陽五), was a Chinese military general and politician of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Jin (predecessor state to Later Tang). Zhang Wenli and Zhou Dewei are 9th-century births.

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Zhu Wen

Emperor Taizu of Liang (梁太祖), personal name Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠) (December 5, 852 – July 18, 912), né Zhu Wen (朱溫), name later changed to Zhu Huang (朱晃), nickname Zhu San (朱三, literally, "the third Zhu"), was a Chinese military general, monarch, and politician.

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Zhu Youzhen

Zhu Zhen (20 October 888 – 18 November 923), often referred to in traditional histories as Emperor Mo of Later Liang (後梁末帝, "last emperor") and sometimes by his princely title Prince of Jun (均王), né Zhu Youzhen (朱友貞), known as Zhu Huang (朱鍠) from 913 to 915, was the third and last emperor of China's Later Liang dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, ruling from 913 to 923.

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Zizhi Tongjian

The Zizhi Tongjian (1084) is a chronicle published during the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) that provides a record of Chinese history from 403 BC to 959 AD, covering 16 dynasties and spanning almost 1400 years.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Wenli

Also known as Wang Deming.

Zhang Wenli, the Glossary

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921 deaths

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms generals

Generals from Beijing

Jin (Later Tang precursor) people

Politicians from Beijing

Zhao (Five Dynasties period) people

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