HIST 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Northern Wei, Western Xia, Sinicization
11 Nov 2017
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The country provides job opportunity but the people are not friendly. People are friendly but there is no job opportunity. Tons of job opportunity and friendly people but the culture is way different from yours, and people want to change your culture. In general others were seen as culturally inferior. Other people will adopt chinese culture: sinicization. Minyue: today"s fujian; defeated and assimilated by han. Nanyue: today"s guangdong, guangxi, yunnan, northern vietnam: co-exist and allowed intermarriage; maintained culture while absorbing chinese culture; developed cantonese. Xiongnu, qiang, etc: moved to central plain. Northern wei dynasty: greatly promoted chinese culture. Nomadic to sedentary: learned chinese classics and farming. Many xianbei people lost the ability of riding on a horse and archery. Debating sinicization: northern wei faced struggles; divided into two countries; one xianbei and one sinicized. Ethnicity and identity formation became and important part of state expansion and local governance. Native rule and nativeness were constructed and manipulated during encounters.
