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times.”47 More commonly, regional regimes of the day simply created miniature “empires,” designating their former provincial offices palaces, and transforming their provincial administrative structures into imperial organizations.48
The political origins as former Tang military governors that early tenth-century rulers shared fundamentally shaped their state policies, interstate relations, political ambitions, and perceptions of the post-Tang
MAP 2. The Former Shu, ca. 924.
