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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
I dunno John, in the PBS show on the guys that traced Marco Polos' travels the folks in NE China hated their Chinese oppressors.
A cursory glance though Google mentions Tibet, Inner Mongolia, East Turkistan ( I think this is the Marco guys area), some bits of India and other pieces....
I find this conversation strange.
Pete
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Mongolia? You mean where the Mongol Dynasty and the Mongol Empire came from?
It gets confusing. The Mongols conquered huge swaths of Asia and what is now India but was at the time a collection of competing feudal states. In the processthey were basically absorbed by the cultures they occupied. Shah Jahan who built that most famous "Indian" monument, the Taj Mahal, was a Mongol ruler.
China, per se, has never been an imerialist country. They have historically been pretty isolationist. Their principle experience of imperialism has been in being occupied and fought over by other imperialist countries.
John