Duan Zhengming

Duan Zhengming
Duan Zhengming
Chinese	段正明
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Duàn Zhèngmíng

Full name
	Family name: Duan (段); Given name: Zhengming (正明);
Era dates
	Baoli (保立): 1082; Jian'an (建安): 1083–1091; Tianyou (天祐): 1091–1094
Posthumous name
	Emperor Baoding (保定皇帝)

Emperor Baoding of Dali
大理保定帝
Emperor Baoding of Dali; 大理保定帝
Emperor of Dali
Reign	1081–1094
Predecessor	Duan Shouhui
Successor	Gao Shengtai (of Dazhong)
Regent	Gao Shengtai
Full name
Full name
	Family name: Duan (段); Given name: Zhengming (正明);
Era dates
	Baoli (保立): 1082; Jian'an (建安): 1083–1091; Tianyou (天祐): 1091–1094
Posthumous name
	Emperor Baoding (保定皇帝)
Dynasty	Dali

Duan Zhengming, also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Baoding of Dali, was the 14th emperor of the Dali Kingdom. In 1081, Gao Zhisheng and his son, Gao Shengtai, forced Duan Zhengming's predecessor, Duan Shouhui (Emperor Shangming), to abdicate and replaced him with Duan Zhengming. In 1094, Gao Shengtai forced Duan Zhengming to relinquish the throne to him and renamed the Dali Kingdom to "Dazhong Kingdom". Gao Shengtai ruled briefly until his death in 1096, after which the throne was returned to the Duan family – Duan Zhengming's younger brother, Duan Zhengchun, became the new ruler and restored the kingdom's former name.

In fiction[edit]

Duan Zhengming is fictionalised as a minor character in the wuxia novel [zh] Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha.