Turks

Author: Huang Weimin
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: The Turks are a great nation with a profound cultural heritage, unique geopolitical characteristics, and a history of creating brilliance and modern myths. This has deeply moved the author as they reflect on the past and present. Therefore, the author attempts to depict the inclusive and eclectic national and ethnic traits of the Turks, as well as the significant transformations brought about by their tumultuous historical fate, with a pen full of rational passion. The aim is to showcase the Turks' values, ways of thinking, ethics, behavioral taboos, personality traits, and national characteristics from different social perspectives, such as culture and history, politics, geographical location, social life, religious beliefs, and customs. This is intended to help more Chinese people gain a comprehensive understanding of the cultural background and historical development process that shapes the national psychology of the Turks, and to draw many beneficial insights from their rise and fall. Because the historical development of the Turks, especially their social progress since the control period, shares many similarities with the historical changes in Chinese society. Both have faced sudden and immense shocks to their culture, systems, ideas, and economic structures, undergoing a historically contradictory transformation process amid cultural value conflicts.