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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 | |
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1 |
Sketch of History of Turkestan 269
aid in the overthrow of a mighty rebel against the throne. There followed other rude attacks from Tibetans, who for a time threw themselves across Western China, cutting communication with Turkestan. Again a vigorous ruler was born into the Imperial throne or a vigorous usurper chanced to seize it ; whereupon the annoying Tibetans were hurled back to their lonely seats. A little later, another Mongol people, invading from the north, grasped the sheep-prey which was the desire of many wolves. These were the Hoi-he or Hu-he, doubtless only another branch of that puzzling, widespread family, whose kaleidoscopic marches and countermarches across Asia have given to historians a fine juggling exercise with shifting names
Mongols, Tartars, Hueng-nu, Yue-che, Uigurs, Tanguts, Ephthalites, Tu-Kiu, Hoi-He, Kirghiz, Kalmuk.
From the Chinese Wall to the Dnieper, from the Tibetan frontier to the Arctic Zone, they are seen fighting each other ; overrunning the borders of civilisation ; upsetting the beginnings of order which some of their own blood may have established ; powerful while yet fresh from the steppe or the mountain-side ; easily corrupted by contact with civil luxury ; forming widespread and ephemeral organisations which passed leaving no traces within their bounds and only blood to mark their excursions ; generally careless about religious matters ; building little and moving much ; they are the will-o'-the-wisp of Asian history. And the story of Turkestan is the story of one inroad after another, ever with reversion to China.
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