Li Baiyao

{{Short description|Chinese historian}}

{{family name hatnote|Li|lang=Chinese}}

Li Baiyao ({{zh|t=李百藥|s=李百药}}) (564–647),{{cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Yue |title=The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms |journal=Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture |date=November 2021 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=448–454 |doi=10.1215/23290048-9299908 |s2cid=244760780 }} courtesy name Zhonggui (重規), formally Viscount Kang of Anping (安平康子), was a Chinese historian and an official during the Chinese Sui dynasty and Tang dynasties.{{cite book |doi=10.1163/9781684170920_006 |chapter=Terrace and Tile: Imagining a Lost City |title=The Halberd at Red Cliff |date=2018 |last1=Tian |first1=Xiaofei |pages=208–280 |isbn=978-1-68417-092-0 |s2cid=240012404 }}{{cite journal |last1=Strange |first1=Mark |title=Representations of Liang Emperor Wu as a Buddhist Ruler in Sixth-and Seventh-century Texts |journal=Asia Major |date=2011 |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=53–112 |jstor=41650011 }} He was honored for his literary abilities,{{cite thesis |id={{ProQuest|304518225}} |oclc=43731521 |last1=Chan |first1=Tim Wai Keung |date=1999 |title=In search of jade: Studies of Early Tang poetry }}{{pn|date=August 2023}} and he was known for completing the official history of Northern Qi, the Book of Northern Qi, which his father Li Delin had started.{{cite journal |last1=Hsu |first1=Eileen Hsiang-Ling |title=The Sengchou Cave and Early Imagery of Sukhāvatī |journal=Artibus Asiae |date=2011 |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=283–323 |jstor=23350217 }}