Ancient bronzes of the eastern Eurasian steppes, Emma C. Bunker, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8109-6348-1, ... The Xianbei were a non-Chinese people living in northeastern China who were conquered by the Xiongnu ... By the first century AD however, the Xianbei themselves had become the new masters of the eastern Eurasian steppes ...
