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What was Yelü Chucai’s Khitan background?
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Yelü Chucai was a Chinese statesman of Khitan extraction. The Khitan were a people related to the eastern Mongols who ruled Manchuria and part of North China from the 10th to the 12th century, founding the Liao dynasty. The ruling tribe of the Liao dynasty was the Yelü, who adopted a Chinese clan system for succession.12345