| Native Name: | 唐 |
| Conventional Long Name: | Tang |
| Common Name: | Later Tang |
| Era: | Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period |
| Status: | Empire |
| Government Type: | Monarchy |
| Year Start: | 923 |
| Year End: | 937 |
| Event Start: | Established in Daming |
| Date Start: | May |
| Event End: | Overthrown by Khitan and Shi Jingtang |
| Date End: | January 11, |
| P1: | Jin (Later Tang precursor)Jìn1 |
| P2: | Later Liang (Five Dynasties)Later Liang |
| P3: | Qi (Li Maozhen's state)Qi |
| P4: | Former Shu |
| S1: | Later Jin (Five Dynasties)Later Jìn2 |
| S2: | Jingnan |
| S3: | Later Shu |
| Image Map Caption: | Later Tang 後唐 |
| Capital: | Daming (923) Luoyang (923–936) |
| Common Languages: | Chinese |
| Currency: | Chinese coin, Chinese cash |
| Leader1: | Li Cunxu (Zhuangzong) |
| Leader2: | Li Siyuan (Mingzong) |
| Leader4: | Li Congke |
| Year Leader1: | 923–926 |
| Year Leader2: | 926–933 |
| Year Leader3: | 933–934 |
| Year Leader4: | 934–936 |
| Title Leader: | Emperor |
| Footnotes: | 1.The preceding entity of the Later Tang was the State of Jin, which was established by Li Keyong in 895 under the Tang dynasty and existed as an independent state in 907–923. 2.With the support of the Liao dynasty. |
| Today: | China |
Tang, known in historiography as the Later Tang, was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China and the second of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history.[1]
The first three of the Later Tang's four emperors were ethnically Shatuo. The name Tang was used to legitimize itself as the restorer of the Tang dynasty. Although the Later Tang officially began in 923, the dynasty already existed in the years before, as a polity known in historiography as the Former Jin (907–923).
At its height, Later Tang controlled most of northern China.
| Temple names | Posthumous names | Chinese naming conventions | Durations of reigns | Era names and their according durations | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhuāngzōng (莊宗) | Emperor Guāngshèng Shénmǐn Xiào(Chinese: 光聖神閔孝皇帝) Too Tedious ;thus,unused when referring to this sovereign | Family name and given name | 923–926 | Tóngguāng (同光) 923–926 | ||
| Míngzōng (明宗) | Hewu (和武) | Family name and given name | 926–933 | Tiānchéng (天成) 926–930 Chángxīng (長興) 930–933 | ||
| none | Mǐn (閔) | Family name and given name | 933–934 | Yìngshùn (應順) 933–934 | ||
| none | Mòdì (末帝) | Family name and given name | 934–937 | Qīngtaì (清泰) 934–937 |