ethnicity-identity_wong-dorothy.md

title	authors	editor	external_url	source_url	real_source_url	drive_links	course	status	tags	year	publisher	address	booktitle	pages	chapter
Ethnicity and identity: Northern nomads as Buddhist art patrons during the period of Northern and Southern dynasties	Dorothy C. Wong	Nicola Di Cosmo and Don J Wyatt	https://archive.org/download/ethnicity-and-identity_dorothy-wong/8_8_text.pdf	https://www.academia.edu/40060890/Ethnicity_and_Identity_Northern_Nomads_as_Buddhist_Art_Patrons	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203987957-11/ethnicity-identity-northern-nomads-buddhist-art-patrons-period-northern-southern-dynasties-dorothy-wong?context=ubx&refId=aa6260e3-2588-46a0-b233-c2457cae238c	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oAf71CWttB7tAQDSdwD4vVpJyHEg9qIQ/view?usp=drivesdk	roots	featured	east-asian-roots bart race intercultural	2003	Routledge	London	Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History	80--118	3

Despite being cultural aliens, the nomads were aware of the superior literary and cultural tradition of the Chinese with whom they came into contact. Accepting the Confucian tradition and Chinese ways, however, would have meant subsuming their military superiority to and separateness from those they conquered. Instead, most nomadic rulers chose to adopt Buddhism as an alternative cultural policy.