Inclusive or Exclusive:A Re-consideration of the Ethnic Relationship Between Huaxia and Yidi in Yuan-Ming Transition
The tension presented by the civilized people Huaxia and its counterpart barbarian Yidi was the core of understanding the history of the Yuan-Ming transition.At one pole,inclusive ethnic strategies were so omnipresent that even radical anti-Mongol rebels had recruited some Mongol and Semu "alien" soldiers and officers.At the opposite pole,however,the idea of delineating "the civilized" and "barbarian" was exclusive.The revived idea had redefined the relationship between the Han Chinese and other ethnic groups in China,and made people believe that the fall of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty was due to the ethnic conflicts.Just as some official or private chronicles compiled in early Ming Dynasty had showed,as well as what some Confucian contemporaries had commented on their time,it revealed that the binary framework of Huaxia-Yidi was re-shaping peoples' thinking of the multi-ethnicity of that time.
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