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The Semu were the name of a political class in Imperial China, made up of foreign experts who came to serve the political systems of Imperial China. The Semu were not a self-defined ethnic group unto
Ma Hajji, a Song dynasty official in Yunnan (a descendant of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar), and his young son Ma He, future admiral Zheng He, as imagined by a modern Kunyang sculptor.
Han Chinese
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The Han Chinese, alternatively Han people or Chinese people, are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the world's large
Semu
…and East Asian peoples under the Yuan dynasty. The Semu were one of the four "castes" which Yuan society was divided into, along with the Mongols, the Hanren, and the Nanren. The Semu included were Buddhist Turpan Uyghurs, Tanguts, and Tibetans; Church of the East Christian tribes like the Ongud; Turkic…
Officials during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) wearing hanfu
A woman wearing ruqun, one of the most distinctive set of attire of female hanfu
A man wearing daopao, one of the most distinctive set of attire of male hanfu
Guo Ziyi, who quelled the An Lushan rebellion, which caused a fall in recorded numbers of Tang inhabitants from 53 million to 17 million people