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• Native Name — 蜀 • Conventional Long Name — Shu • Common Name — Later Shu • Era — Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period • Status — Empire • Government Type — Monarchy • Year Start — 934 • Year End — 965 • Event Start — Established in Chengdu • Event End — Surrendered to Song • P1 — Later Tang • S1 — Song dynasty • Image Map — Later Zhou.png • Image Map Caption — Later Shu shown in light red • Capital — Chengdu • Common Languages — Ba–Shu Chinese • Leader1 — Emperor Gaozu • Leader2 — Emperor Houzhu • Year Leader1 — 934 • Year Leader2 — 934–965 • Title Leader — Emperor • Today — China Shu, referred to as Later Shu and Meng Shu in historiography, was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It was located in present-day Sichuan with its capital in Chengdu and lasted from 934 to 965.
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• Temple name — Posthumous name — Family name and given name — Reign — Era names and their corresponding years • Gāo Zǔ|高祖 — Emperor Wénwǔ Shèngdé Yīngliè Míngxiào (文武聖德英烈明孝皇帝) — Mèng Zhīxíang (孟知祥) — 934 — Míngdé (明德) 934 • Hòu Zhǔ|後主 — Prince Gongxiao of Chu (楚恭孝王) — Mèng Chǎng (孟昶) — 934–965 — Míngdé (明德) 934–938 Guǎngzhèng (廣政) 938–965
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