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Huang Chao (d. 884) was the leader of the Huang Chao Rebellion (875~884) in China that seriously weakened the once-mighty Tang Dynasty. Around the 870s a severe drought and famine struck northern and central China, and mobs of starving people joined the criminal gangs of Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, who revolted against Tang rule and began to gain in strength. Huang Chao led his forces in guerrilla attacks against the regular Tang army, gradually attracting as many as 600,000 followers who burned and plundered cities as far south as Canton. In 883, Tang armies, assisted by nomadic Turkish tribes under the Shatuo Turk chieftain Li Keyong, recaptured Chang’an. Huang Chao fled east to Tai Shan, where he died in 884. The Huang Chao Rebellion was the final blow for the Tang Dynasty, which had begun its decline a century before after the Anshi Rebellion.

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