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*''Dates: [[907]]-[[1125]]''
*''Chinese'': 遼 ''(Liáo)''
The Liao Dynasty was a [[Khitan]] state which controlled an area of northern China during China's [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]] and [[Northern Song Dynasty]] periods. Ruled by a nomadic steppes people, the Khitans, the Liao incorporated a combination of Chinese and Central Asian / steppe institutions and practices. Much evidence of their adoption of [[Tang Dynasty]] religious and artistic culture survives still today in the city of [[Datong]] and elsewhere in [[Shanxi province]]. A [[Timber Pagoda]] built by the Khitans in [[1055]] remains the oldest and tallest wooden pagoda in China today, and stands taller than the tallest wooden pagoda in Japan, that at [[To-ji|Tô-ji]] in [[Kyoto]].<ref>Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 309-311.</ref>
The Liao government was divided into Northern and Southern Chancelleries, and controlled sixteen prefectures south of the [[Great Wall]]. Aspects of its political structures had significant impact in [[China proper]], as they were adopted by the [[Mongols|Mongol]] [[Yuan Dynasty]].
The Liao clashed violently with the Song on a number of occasions; after [[Emperor Taizong of Song]] (r. [[976]]-[[997]]) failed twice to take [[Beijing]] from the Liao, the Song began in [[1004]] to pay the Liao 100,000 ounces of silver and 200,000 bolts of cloth every year, in [[tribute]], in exchange for peace.<ref>Hansen, 265-267.</ref>
Founded in [[907]], the Liao fell in [[1125]] to the forces of the [[Jurchen]] [[Jin Dynasty]].
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==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 193.
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*''Chinese'': 遼 ''(Liáo)''
The Liao Dynasty was a [[Khitan]] state which controlled an area of northern China during China's [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]] and [[Northern Song Dynasty]] periods. Ruled by a nomadic steppes people, the Khitans, the Liao incorporated a combination of Chinese and Central Asian / steppe institutions and practices. Much evidence of their adoption of [[Tang Dynasty]] religious and artistic culture survives still today in the city of [[Datong]] and elsewhere in [[Shanxi province]]. A [[Timber Pagoda]] built by the Khitans in [[1055]] remains the oldest and tallest wooden pagoda in China today, and stands taller than the tallest wooden pagoda in Japan, that at [[To-ji|Tô-ji]] in [[Kyoto]].<ref>Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 309-311.</ref>
The Liao government was divided into Northern and Southern Chancelleries, and controlled sixteen prefectures south of the [[Great Wall]]. Aspects of its political structures had significant impact in [[China proper]], as they were adopted by the [[Mongols|Mongol]] [[Yuan Dynasty]].
The Liao clashed violently with the Song on a number of occasions; after [[Emperor Taizong of Song]] (r. [[976]]-[[997]]) failed twice to take [[Beijing]] from the Liao, the Song began in [[1004]] to pay the Liao 100,000 ounces of silver and 200,000 bolts of cloth every year, in [[tribute]], in exchange for peace.<ref>Hansen, 265-267.</ref>
Founded in [[907]], the Liao fell in [[1125]] to the forces of the [[Jurchen]] [[Jin Dynasty]].
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==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 193.
<references/>
[[Category:Historical Periods]]
[[Category:Heian Period]]
