Great Shu / Han 大蜀 / 漢
907–925
Capital	Chengdu
Common languages	Ba–Shu Chinese
Government	Monarchy
Emperor
• 907–918	Wang Jian
• 918–925	Wang Zongyan
Historical era	Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
• Foundation of the State of Shu under Tang rule	903
• Fall of the Tang dynasty	June 1, 907 907
• Ended by the Later Tang	925 925
Currency	Chinese coin, Chinese cash
Preceded by Succeeded by Tang dynasty Later Tang
Today part of	China
Shu had changed its country name from "Shu" to "Han" in 917–918.

China in 923; Former Shu marked brown

Great Shu (Chinese: 大蜀; pinyin: Dàshǔ), known in historiography as the Former Shu (Chinese: 前蜀; pinyin: Qiánshǔ) or occasionally Wang Shu (王蜀), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It existed from 907 to 925 CE.

The country's name changed from "Shu" to "Han" (Chinese: 漢; pinyin: Hàn) in 917–918, which is not to be confused with another contemporaneous kingdom during the same Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Southern Han (traditional Chinese: 南漢; simplified Chinese: 南汉; pinyin: Nán Hàn), 917–971 CE.

Rulers

See also

• Later Shu

References

• Mote, F.W. (1999). Imperial China (900–1800). Harvard University Press. pp. 11–12, 14–15. ISBN 0-674-01212-7.

Further reading

• Wang, Hongjie (2011). Power and Politics in Tenth-Century China: The Former Shu Regime. Amherst: Cambria Press. ISBN 978-1604977646.