Hi - I'm an Oriental Orthodox Christian living in the USA. I just got genetically typed as having Tajik ancestry from the mountain village of Rangon, in Khatlon Province, and also with elements of Xiongnu, Mongolic, Tibetan and Eastern Panjabi. I am proud of my heritage, and confident that there was some sort of trading going on, and I circulate around the different ethnic Orthodox Christians near me with ease, also periodically the Budhists and Muslims, but our Zoroastrians here are very elusive to catch in conversation. The first Sogdian road was much older than the latter Silk Road, and was further north of the Tarim Basin; later, Sogdians who had settled villages in the Basin had to take Chinese surnames when Xinjiang was captured, and we will not know their original Persian surnames. We, in the USA, are starting to have to look at some of the same challenges to trade, security and our identity in modern political times, and now it is no cooincidence that you and Mr. Sheridan have appeared on my horizon as researchers and teachers. I count myself extremely fortunate to have seen this today, and I would like to get in touch with you and Mr. Sheridan at Cambridge to periodically ask about your findings. How do I do this?
Thank you for your comment! You do seem to have a very complex heritage. It is very easy to get in touch with either me or Daniel, you just google our names and add "Cambridge". Then you get a page that includes our email addresses.
It's such an exciting video! Daniel honestly seems to be a very skilled researcher and very passionate about what he talks about. I will also write my thesis on Christian Sogdians. I'm sure working with Nicholas Sims-Williams is an incredible honor. I, like Daniel, was so struck by how passionately my professor spoke about Sogdians that I ended up shifting from studying early modern history to Late Antiquity. I hope, somehow, to be able to read the work produced by Daniel. Thank you very much, professor, for this beautiful video.
粟特人，they were quite a thing in chinese history, It started in the Han dynasty due to the silk road and flourished during the Tang dynasty, later on largely integrated into the Chinese society. the so called 昭武九姓 "Nine surnames of Zhaowu" which defines the sogdians in China who had been given nine han Chinese surnames, cause they originated from 9 different city kingdoms in central asia, the largest one was Kang Ju Kingdom located in today's Samarkand, you can google it if you are interested to learn more btw their closest relative in today's China is the chinese tajik people in Xinjiang, they are still practicing Zoroastrianism nowadays
This interview was fantastic!!
Great, I am glad it was useful!
A really interesting film about a little-known, for me at least, aspect of Chinese history - thanks for making it publicly available.
Thanks for watching! Glad you found it useful.
Hi - I'm an Oriental Orthodox Christian living in the USA. I just got genetically typed as having Tajik ancestry from the mountain village of Rangon, in Khatlon Province, and also with elements of Xiongnu, Mongolic, Tibetan and Eastern Panjabi. I am proud of my heritage, and confident that there was some sort of trading going on, and I circulate around the different ethnic Orthodox Christians near me with ease, also periodically the Budhists and Muslims, but our Zoroastrians here are very elusive to catch in conversation. The first Sogdian road was much older than the latter Silk Road, and was further north of the Tarim Basin; later, Sogdians who had settled villages in the Basin had to take Chinese surnames when Xinjiang was captured, and we will not know their original Persian surnames. We, in the USA, are starting to have to look at some of the same challenges to trade, security and our identity in modern political times, and now it is no cooincidence that you and Mr. Sheridan have appeared on my horizon as researchers and teachers. I count myself extremely fortunate to have seen this today, and I would like to get in touch with you and Mr. Sheridan at Cambridge to periodically ask about your findings. How do I do this?
Thank you for your comment! You do seem to have a very complex heritage. It is very easy to get in touch with either me or Daniel, you just google our names and add "Cambridge". Then you get a page that includes our email addresses.
@@TheChineseAlphabet wonderful!
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It's such an exciting video! Daniel honestly seems to be a very skilled researcher and very passionate about what he talks about. I will also write my thesis on Christian Sogdians. I'm sure working with Nicholas Sims-Williams is an incredible honor. I, like Daniel, was so struck by how passionately my professor spoke about Sogdians that I ended up shifting from studying early modern history to Late Antiquity. I hope, somehow, to be able to read the work produced by Daniel. Thank you very much, professor, for this beautiful video.
Thanks for watching! Since then Daniel graduated and this PhD! :)
young genius !!
That's good! 😀
How dou you write "Sogdian" in Chinese? When was it a thing, a country?
It is written Sute 粟特 in Chinese. They were big during the Tang period, but even before that. Their main city was Samakand in today's Uzbekistan.
粟特人，they were quite a thing in chinese history, It started in the Han dynasty due to the silk road and flourished during the Tang dynasty, later on largely integrated into the Chinese society.
the so called 昭武九姓 "Nine surnames of Zhaowu" which defines the sogdians in China who had been given nine han Chinese surnames, cause they originated from 9 different city kingdoms in central asia, the largest one was Kang Ju Kingdom located in today's Samarkand, you can google it if you are interested to learn more
btw their closest relative in today's China is the chinese tajik people in Xinjiang, they are still practicing Zoroastrianism nowadays
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@@Musa03nwhat are you talking about
Basically my ancestry. Illustrative dna says Nestorian