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monarch

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and his concubine

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. After Baosi entered the royal palace, King You deposed Queen Shen (申后) and her son Crown Prince

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, replacing them with Baosi and Bofu. King You and Bofu were both killed in 771 BCE by

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nomads at Mount Li near

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in present-day

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. Another sourceCambridge History of Ancient China,1999, pages 546 and 551 says that Bofu lived and contended for the throne with Queen Shen's son,

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References

*''Revised Chinese Dictionary'', Ministry of Education, Taiwan Zhou dynasty nobility 779 BC births 771 BC deaths {{China-royal-stub