Racial segregation

====Tang dynasty====
[[File:Sogdian New Year Festival, Northern Qi.jpg|thumb|Ethnic Han were banned from forming relationships with Sogdians, depicted here on the [[Anyang funerary bed]], circa 567/573.]]
Several laws which enforced racial segregation of foreigners from Chinese were passed by the [[Han Chinese]] during the [[Tang dynasty]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} In 779, the Tang dynasty issued an edict which forced [[Uyghur Khaganate#Successors|Uyghurs]] to wear their ethnic dress, stopped them from marrying Chinese females, and banned them from pretending to be Chinese.<ref name="Edward H. Schafer 1963 22">{{Cite book |last=Edward H. Schafer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jqAGIL02BWQC&q=chinese+uighurs+779+edict+lure+canton+836+foreigners+and+chinese+lu+governor+forbade+marriages+forced+separate&pg=PA22 |title=The golden peaches of Samarkand: a study of Tʻang exotics |publisher=University of California Press |year=1963 |isbn=978-0-520-05462-2 |page=22 |access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref> In 836, when Lu Chun was appointed as governor of [[Guangzhou|Canton]], he was disgusted to find Chinese living with foreigners and intermarriage between Chinese and foreigners. Lu enforced separation, banning interracial marriages, and made it illegal for foreigners to own property. Lu Chun believed his principles were just and upright.<ref name="Edward H. Schafer 1963 22" /> The 836 law specifically banned Chinese from forming relationships with "Dark peoples" or "People of colour", which was used to describe foreigners, such as "[[Iranians in China|Iranians]], [[Sogdia]]ns, [[Arabs]], [[Indians in China|Indians]], [[Malaysian diaspora|Malays]], [[Sumatra]]ns", among others.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mark Edward Lewis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpgVvAh2_EsC&q=836+law+tang+dynasty&pg=PA170 |title=China's cosmopolitan empire: the Tang dynasty |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-674-03306-1 |page=170 |access-date=28 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jacques Gernet |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern |title=A history of Chinese civilization |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-521-49781-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern/page/294 294] |quote=836 decree chinese people of colour. |access-date=28 October 2010 |url-access=registration}}</ref>