The TAng were already in decline by An's time so if not him some other military gov would have made a grab for power. One of the Turkic tribes would have made a grab for the Tarim Basin and ended Chinese influence. Though I agree that the Chinese need to have a break in their 5000 year cultural history to lose their superiority maybe they never invade the south of the Yangtze.
In my classes and talking to people in China they never first named any of the non-Han. It was always "the Han And the ethnic minorities" they only ever named the Mongols, Jurchen-Manchu, and the Uyghurs".
In my classes and talking to people in China they never first named any of the non-Han. It was always "the Han And the ethnic minorities" they only ever named the Mongols, Jurchen-Manchu, and the Uyghurs".
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