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The 15 pages that link to Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, each with the reason it gives.

• Tang dynastyRelated: The Tang collapse opened this era of competing northern dynasties and southern kingdoms.

• Song dynastyNarrower topic: Song rule began by ending the fragmentation of this period.

• Liao dynastyRelated: The Liao emerged as a major power amid northern China’s fragmentation.

• Northern Song dynastyNarrower topic: Its competing regimes created the conditions in which Song reunification took place.

• JiedushiNarrower topic: Powerful regional military governors helped shape the successor states after Tang rule ended.

• Huang Chao RebellionNarrower topic: The rebellion weakened Tang rule before the fragmentation that followed the dynasty’s fall.

• WuyueNarrower topic: Wuyue was one of the southern kingdoms formed during this era.

• Emperor Xianzong of TangBroader topic: The later fragmentation contrasts with the temporary unity achieved during Xianzong’s reign.

• Emperor Taizu of SongNarrower topic: Taizu’s state-building began amid the fragmentation this period describes.

• Later ZhouNarrower topic: The Later Zhou's fall began the transition out of this fragmented era in the north.

• AbaojiRelated: The divided Chinese states formed the southern political landscape of Abaoji’s reign.

• Later TangNarrower topic: Later Tang was the second of five successive northern dynasties in this era.

• Wen TingyunRelated: The anthology preserving many of Wen’s lyrics emerged in the literary world after the Tang.

• Huang ChaoNarrower topic: The warlord order strengthened during Huang Chao’s revolt preceded this era of fragmentation.

• Upheaval of the Five BarbariansCompared with: Its similar language of political division describes a much later and distinct historical crisis.