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Li Yu (Southern Tang)
Li Yu was the last ruler of Southern Tang, reigning from 961 to 975, and one of the great poets of Chinese literature. Already reduced to a Song tributary, his state fell when Song armies took his capital Nanjing in 975. He was taken north to the Song capital Kaifeng, where his poems of loss and exile made him a master of the ci form. He died, reportedly poisoned, in 978.
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