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88 Part II: Outsiders Buddha, and it was not uncommon for debates to rage among different sects. Travel to India and to the sour ...

them. But Monkey managed to put in a tremendous blow of the cudgel right on the monster’s head. At once the monster broke away, ...

90 Part II: Outsiders The book itself is an odd combination of extremely repetitive and mundane accounts of Polo’s work as a fun ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 91 ing a life of ascetic renunciation. Giving alms, carrying a rosary, occasional me ...

Box 3.2 The Prophets Zarathustra and Mani The movement of ideas and cultures is perhaps the greatest legacy of the Eurasian trad ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 93 For some it may seem absurd to suggest that groups like the Mongol hordes were mo ...

94 Part II: Outsiders explains the legendary tales of Amazon women by noting that Scythian soci- ety, like other Central Asian c ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 95 Whereas the great no- madic cultures and empires celebrated horsemanship and mart ...

96 Part II: Outsiders in every direction by superior civilizations—west, southwest, south, and east. The Silk Road enticed them ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 97 Arabic, Turkic, and Persian civilizations that were rich and sophisticated in vir ...

98 Part II: Outsiders as Ikh Khorig (the forbidden zone), it was kept off limits even by the Soviets into the twentieth century, ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 99 who was a “brilliant but opinionated writer” in a “single style and full of parti ...

100 Part II: Outsiders But Kublai also modernized China, expanding the use of paper money and patronizing the arts, especially d ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 101 neighbors as well as travelers from distant lands who traversed their homeland, ...

102 Part II: Outsiders Square in 2013 that left five dead to a coordinated knife attack that left 35 dead in 2014 in southern Ku ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 103 delegations visited. The historical interweaving of Tibetan politics and Tibetan ...

104 Part II: Outsiders After the cataclysm of war with Japan in the 1930s and 1940s, and the ensu- ing collapse of the Nationali ...

105 4 TRIBAL PEOPLE ...

MAJORITY AND MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS IN MODERN ASIAN NATIONS Nation China (2016) 1.379 billion South Korea (2016) 51.25 million N ...

107 Self-Governing People and Expansionary States This chapter is devoted to the barbarians. From the point of view of all the a ...