Person

Gao Shengtai

d. c. 1096 · 11th century

Gao Shengtai was a chief minister of the Dali Kingdom in Yunnan who in 1094 deposed the Duan king and took the throne, renaming the state Dazhong. Before his death around 1096 he arranged for the throne to return to the Duan family, but his descendants kept hereditary power as chief ministers until the Mongol conquest of 1253.

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Dali Kingdom

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