| Abstrakt: |
During the 6th-8th centuries AD, with the rise of a Turkic people (the Tujue) and the establishment of the Turkic Khanate, ethnic groups in the Mobei area underwent a new wave of change, i.e., a process of Turkicization. In the course of integrating into this nomadic Turkic group, the Sogdians, who were active in this area, on the one hand showed characteristics and trends of Turkicization while on the other retaining a number of factors from their own traditional culture. The vicissitudes of nomadic empires and their migratory life meant that the Turkicization of the Sogdians was not fully complete. The ethnic interaction and blending between the Sogdians and the Tujue in the Mobei area during middle antiquity shows that ethnic identity within the nomadic society of northern China seems to have been more fragile and volatile than in the settled farming culture circle of the Han. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
