Talk:Liu Yuan (Han-Zhao)

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Parentage of Liu Yuan

There seems to be some scholarly doubt whether Liu Yuan really was the son of (Liu) Bao. Rafe de Crespigny in his Biographical Dictionary of the Later Han, writes in his entry for Bao (listed as "Bao; Xiongnu" without surname): The Jin shu ... says that Bao held the Liu surname and was the father of Liu Yuan. The modern scholar Tang Changru, however, has argued that this was no more than a propaganda attempt to identify Liu Yuan with the great imperial lineages of the past. I do not have access to Tang's work, but it's worth noting that Bao must have been an old man (though not impossibly so) when Liu Yuan was born, as he can hardly have been born later than 180. Fornadan (t) 18:25, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]