Shu, referred to as Later Shu ( zh, t=後蜀, s=后蜀, first=t, p=Hòu Shǔ) and Meng Shu ( zh, c=孟蜀) 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
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
with its capital in
Chengdu
Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...
and lasted from 934 to 965.
Rulers
Rulers family tree
See also
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First Kingdom of Shu
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Second Kingdom of Shu
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Third Kingdom of Shu
References
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Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Former countries in Chinese history
History of Sichuan
934 establishments
10th-century establishments in China
965 disestablishments
10th-century disestablishments in China
States and territories established in the 930s
States and territories disestablished in the 960s