The Past of Shatuo: the Ups and Downs from the Western Regions to the Central Plains

This book is a general historical reading about the Shatuo people. The Shatuo people were one of the ethnic minorities in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. With the changes in the political situation in the late Tang Dynasty, the Shatuo people continued to grow in power from the Western Regions to the Central Plains. Since Li Keyong became the governor of Hedong in the third year of Emperor Xizong's reign in the Tang Dynasty (883), the Shatuo people established a separate local government. They successively established the "Three Shatuo Dynasties" of the Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Later Han Dynasty, as well as the Northern Han Dynasty, one of the Ten Kingdoms of the Five Dynasties. They ruled in northern China or parts of northern China for nearly a century. Based on previous research, this book uses relatively popular language to trace and interpret the history of the Shatuo people, sorting out the entire process of Shatuo's origin, migration, development and decline. It is a special book about the history of Shatuo, with both academic rigor and narrative fluency.