Iranian Emigrants

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Abd al-Samad, Gastarbeiter, Hola (ethnic group), Iranians in China, Iranians in Israel, Iranians in Japan, Iranians in Pakistan, Iranians in Qatar, Iranians in Spain, Iranians in Sweden, Iranians in Thailand, Iranians in the Netherlands, Iranians in the Philippines, Iranians in the United Kingdom, Iranian American, Iranian Australian, Iranian Canadian, Iranian diaspora, Iranian Kuwaitis, Iranian New Zealander, Mahyar Monshipour, Mazyar Keshvari, Norwegians with Iranian background, Persians in Bahrain, Tehrangeles. Excerpt: Iranian people in China have lived in China throughout various periods in Chinese history. The Parthian Iranians An Shigao and An Xuan introduced Buddhism to China. From the tenth to twelfth century, Persian women were to be found in Guangzhou (Canton), some of them in the tenth century like Mei Zhu in the harem of the Emperor Liu Chang, and in the twelfth century large numbers of Persian women lived there, noted for wearing multiple earrings and "quarrelsome dispositions." It was recorded that "The Po- ssu-fu at Kuang-chou make holes all round their ears. There are some who wear more than twenty ear-rings." Descriptions of the sexual activities between Liu Chang and the Persian woman in the Song dynasty book the "Ch'ing-i-lu" by T'ao Ku were so graphic that the "Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (the Oriental Library), Issue 2" refused to provide any quotes from it while discussing the subject. Liu had free time with the Persian women by delegating the task of governing to others. Multiple women originating from the Persian Gulf lived in Guangzhou's foreign quarter, they were all called "Persian women" ( Po-ssu-fu or Bosifu). Some scholars did not differentiate between Persian and Arab, and some say that the Chinese called all women coming from the Persian Gulf...