There's definitely quite a bit of exoticization and othering in Chinese records of the "barbarian races," as there tend to be when talking about people you think are inferior and alien. We're unable to check these against the Turkic tribes' own records, either, since they didn't leave written records going that far back.
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Date: 2014-12-14 09:30 am (UTC)