Research on the Eastern Migration of Western Regions People and Their Culture during the Yuan Dynasty

Author: Ma Jianchun
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: This book employs historical and ethnological research methods, offering a new perspective to comprehensively and multi-angledly elaborate on the reasons, conditions, processes, and the distribution, occupational composition, social status, economic activities, and cultural identity of various ethnic groups such as the Hui, Khara-Khitan, Arghun, Kang, Qinchon, Asu, Varangian, Shu Hu, and Yelike Wen who migrated eastward from beyond the Pamirs during the Mongol and Yuan periods. It also conducts an in-depth and systematic examination of the transmission and influence of Western Regions culture to the East during this time. The paper highlights the characteristics of this period's migration of Western Regions people and their positive impact on the cultural development of both Eastern and Western civilizations, thereby revealing the profound connotations of Sino-Western ethnic cultural exchange during the Yuan Dynasty.