Former Shu

{{Short description|10th-century Chinese kingdom}}

{{Distinguish|Qian Chu|Shu Han}}

{{Infobox country

|native_name = 大蜀 / 漢

|conventional_long_name = Great Shu / Han

|common_name = Former Shu

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|era = Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

|status = Empire

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|government_type = Monarchy

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|year_start = 907

|year_end = 925

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|event_start = Fall of the Tang dynasty

|date_start = June 1, 907

|event_end = Ended by the Later Tang

|date_end = 925

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|event_pre = Foundation of the State of Shu under Tang rule

|date_pre = 903

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|p1 = Tang dynasty

|s1 = Later Tang

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|capital = Chengdu

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|common_languages = Ba–Shu Chinese

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|currency = Chinese coin,
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|leader1 = Wang Jian

|leader2 = Wang Zongyan

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|year_leader1 = 907–918

|year_leader2 = 918–925

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|title_leader = Emperor

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|footnotes = Shu had changed its country name from "Shu" to "Han" in 917–918.

|today = China

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Great Shu ({{lang-zh|c=大蜀|p=Dàshǔ}}), known in historiography as the Former Shu ({{lang-zh|c=前蜀|p=Qiánshǔ|links=no}}) 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" ({{lang-zh|t=漢|p=Hàn|links=no}}) 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 ({{lang-zh|t=南漢|s=南汉|first=t|p=Nán Hàn|links=no}}), 917–971 CE.