Turfan Prefecture - Factbites

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	Xi Xia or Western Xia Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Dangxiang-qiang spread from Lintao [Lintan of Gansu Prov] and Xiping [Xining of Qinghai] in the east to Yehu [Shanshan and Turfan county in New Dominion Prov] in the west.
		In AD 629, Dangxiang-qiang leader Xifeng Bulai relocated to Guizhou (A'bei prefecture and Songpan county of Sichuan Prov] and received Tang conferral as "ci shi" (satrap or governor) for Guizhou Prefecture.
		Posterior Han Dynasty continued the pacification policy as to the Tanguts, and further seceded Jingzhou (Mizhi county of Shenxi) to Li Yiyin in AD 949 and conferred the title of "zhong shu ling" (minister for central secretariat).
	www.uglychinese.org /xixia.htm

	Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Born of a family possessing erudition for generations in Yanshi prefecture of Henan province, Xuanzang, whose lay name was Chenhui, was the youngest of four children.
		Here he spent approximately a month preaching the Buddhist message before being invited to Hami by King Qu Wentai (Ch'u Wen-tai) of Turfan, a pious Buddhist of Chinese extraction.
		His great-grandfather was an official serving as a prefect, his grand-father was appointed as Professor in the National College at the capital, and his father was a Confucianist of the rigid conservative type who gave up office and withdrew into seclusion to escape the political turmoil that gripped China at that time.
	www.iep.utm.edu /x/xuanzang.htm (4283 words)

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