This is a tentative key to the novel "River of Stars" by Guy Gavriel Kay connecting the characters and places in the novel with likely historical people and places before, during and after the Jingkang Incident.
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Twelfth Dynasty |
Song Dynasty |
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Ninth Dynasty |
Tang Dynasty |
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Third Dynasty |
Han Dynasty ? |
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Kitai |
China |
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14 Prefectures |
16 Prefectures |
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Kishik |
Xi Xia, Tangut |
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Xiaolu |
Liao, Khitan |
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Altai |
Jin, Jurchen/Manchu |
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Tagur |
Tibet |
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Hanjin |
Kaifeng (Bianjing) |
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Yenling |
Luoyang |
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Xinan |
Xi’an (Chang’an) |
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Jingxian |
Wuhan or Nanjing? |
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Erighaya |
forgot siege weapons |
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Shuquian |
Yinchuan ? |
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Shantong |
Hangzhou |
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East |
Liao |
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West Capital |
Liao |
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South Capital |
Liao |
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Upper Capital |
Shangjing |
Jin |
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Lingzhou |
Hainan |
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Szechen |
Sichuan |
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Genyue |
Genyue (艮岳) |
imperial park |
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Ren Daiyen |
Yue Fei, 岳飛 |
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Lin Shan |
Lǐ Qīngzhào, 李清照 |
poet |
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Qi Wai |
Zhào Míngchéng, 赵明诚 |
her husband |
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Lin Kuo |
Li Gefei |
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Cho Master |
Confucius |
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Chan Du |
Li Bo or Du Fu ? |
Tang poet |
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Lu Chen |
Sū Dōngpō,蘇東坡 |
Sū Shì,蘇軾 |
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Lu Chao |
Sū Zhé, 蘇轍 |
his brother |
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Hang Dejin |
Wáng Ānshí, 王安石 |
reform PM |
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Hang Hsien |
? |
his son |
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Xi Wengao |
Sīmǎ Guāng, 司馬光 |
conserv. PM |
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Kai Zhen |
Cài Jīng, 蔡京 |
succeeds Wang Anshi |
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Wenzong |
Emperor Huizong, 徽宗 |
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Chizu |
Emperor Qinzong, 欽宗 |
son of 徽宗 |
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Zhizeng |
Emperor Gaozong, 高宗 |
half-brother of 欽宗 |
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Wan’yen |
Aguda, Taizu (no dance) |
emperor of Jin |
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last emperor of Liao |
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Yan’po |
Khagan of the Altai |
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