Xiong Kang
Appearance
Xiong Kang | |||||
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Ruler of Chu | |||||
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Xiong Kang (Chinese:
Xiong Kang succeeded his father Xiong Qu. The Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) says that Xiong Kang died early and Xiong Qu was succeeded by Xiong Zhi,[1] but the Xinian account in the recently discovered Tsinghua Bamboo Slips recorded Xiong Kang as the successor of Xiong Qu.[2] This excavated manuscript is historically closer than the events it describes, and was written in the state of Chu.
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