TY - BOOK AU - Pulleyblank,Edwin G. TI - Central Asia and non-Chinese peoples of ancient China SN - 0860788598 (alk. paper) U1 - 958 PY - 2002/// CY - Burlington PB - Ashgate KW - Aliens -- China -- History KW - Asia, Central -- History KW - Aliens KW - Central Asia KW - China N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; The date of the StaA"l-Holstein Roll; Some remarks on the Toquzoghuz problem; Chinese evidence for the date of Kaniska; The Chinese and their neighbors in prehistoric and early historic times; Ji Hu: indigenous inhabitants of Shaanbei and Western Shanxi; Zou and Lu and the sinification of Shandong; The "High Carts": a Turkish speaking people before the TA1/4rks; The name of the Kirghiz; Chinese and Indo-Europeans; The Wu-sun and Sakas and the YA1/4eh-Chih migration; Han China in Central Asia; Why Tocharians?; Early contacts between Indo-Europeans and Chinese; Central Asia at the dawn of history; Index ER -