Li Shouzhen | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 李守貞 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 李守贞 | ||||||||||
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Li Shouzhen (李守貞; died 17 August 949[1][2]) was a Chinese military general, monarch, and politician of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period states Later Jin and Later Han, as well as (briefly) the Khitan Liao dynasty. During the reign of Later Han's second emperor Liu Chengyou, he became concerned that he was being targeted by the officials assisting the young emperor, and therefore rebelled. His rebellion was defeated by the Later Han general Guo Wei, however, and he committed suicide.