↑ J.P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair The Tarim Mummies, p. 55, ISBN 0-500-05101-1. "The strange creatures of the Shanhai jing: (...) we find recorded north of the territory of the "fish dragons" the land of the Bai, whose bodies are white and whose long hair falls on their shoulders. "
↑ Saiget, Robert J. (ngày 19 tháng 4 năm 2005). “Caucasians preceded East Asians in basin”. The Washington Times (News World Communications). Bản gốc lưu trữ ngày 20 tháng 4 năm 2005. Truy cập ngày 20 tháng 8 năm 2007. A study last year by Jilin University also found that the mummies' DNA had Europoid genes.
↑ Ata-Malik Juvayni. The History of The World Conqueror. Hearing of the settlement of the giir-khan and his followers and their great numbers, he sent messengers to him to inform him of his own powerlessness and of the strength and wickedness of the Qanqli and Qarluq and to beg him to advance upon his capital so that he might place the whole of his kingdom under his control and so free him-self from the cares of this world. The gür-khan proceeded to Balasaqun and ascended a throne that had cost him nothing.
↑ Ata-Malik Juvayni. The History of The World Conqueror. From here Küchlüg proceeded to Khotan, and seized that country; whereupon he compelled the inhabitants to abjure the religion of Mohammed, giving them the choice between two alternatives, either to adopt the Christian or idolatrous creed or to don the garb of the Khitayans. And since it was impossible to go over to another religion, by reason of hard necessity they clad themselves in the dress of the Khitayans.
↑ Svatopluk Soucek (2000). “Chapter 6 - Seljukids and Ghazvanids”. A history of Inner Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0521657040.
↑ Biran, Michal. (2005). The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. Cambridge University Press. tr. 195–196. ISBN0521842263.
↑ Biran, Michal. (2005). The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. Cambridge University Press. tr. 83. ISBN0521842263.
↑ Grousset, Rene (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Centra Asia (pages 491–501). Rutgers University Press. ISBN0-8135-0627-1.
