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To: MarcoPolo
I'd be the least suprised if Qin turns out to be a tall, red-haired guy.

On The Presence Of Non-Chinese At Anyang

14 posted on 07/01/2007 6:59:24 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

The Chinese do have 56 different ethnic groups which make up their population. Some of them are very much Caucasian or at least Middle Eastern as I myself saw. Their Muslim populations are a mix of Central Asian, Han Chinese, Persian and other lineages. I saw people that, if I had seen them on the streets of the U.S., I would never have thought they were Chinese.

But Qin Shi Huang I believe was very “Chinese-looking”. Every indication is that he would have been black-haired, dark-eyed and “yellow”-skinned (as the Chinese style themselves. All the ancient depictions of him that I’m aware of have him as such.


15 posted on 07/01/2007 7:24:05 AM PDT by MarcoPolo
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